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{{a|devil|<youtube>https://youtu.be/JdzHAKPV7dk</youtube>}}We humans tend to name our epochs in hindsight, by reference to the catastrophe that ended them: “antediluvian”; “pre-pubescent”; “pre-historic”; “pre-crisis”. | {{a|devil|<youtube>https://youtu.be/JdzHAKPV7dk</youtube>}}We humans tend to name our epochs in hindsight, by reference to the catastrophe that ended them: “antediluvian”; “pre-pubescent”; “pre-historic”; “pre-crisis”. | ||
A wishfully revisionist habit, since the one thing that cannot define a given period is the crisis that will eventually do for it. Especially if the people of that period have no reasonable inkling of what is coming. | |||
But these hysterical times may be the exception that proves that rule. This time, we ''do'' know it is coming. It ''does'' fashion our behaviour: no-one with a functioning cerebellum has any doubt ''we are in [[End of days|the end of days]]'', and is therefore making what hay can be made before the remaining sunlight blooms into ''supernova''. | But these hysterical times may be the exception that proves that rule. This time, we ''do'' know it is coming. It ''does'' fashion our behaviour: no-one with a functioning cerebellum has any doubt ''we are in [[End of days|the end of days]]'', and is therefore making what hay can be made before the remaining sunlight blooms into ''supernova''. |