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The Psychological Trap That Makes You CRAVE The End of The World
We live suspended between the tick and the tock of a clock whose hands we cannot see. This constant, chaotic flow of time—a relentless, unstructured now—is a source of profound human anxiety. To cope, we tell ourselves stories. More specifically, we tell ourselves stories about the end. The literary critic Frank Kermode, in his seminal work, uncovered a startling truth about the human psyche: we secretly crave the apocalypse. Not out of a desire for destruction, but out of a desperate need for meaning. Kermode argues that narratives of catastrophe are a form of comfort, an anesthetic against…
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