bayes(@bayeslord):In all of this we have forgotten to discuss the fact that people *get high* on the idea of the apocalypse. There is a reverie the human organism finds in it, which wells up and recurs throughout history. Of course this doesn't mean that next time isn't different. It could be. Total nuclear war was actually dangerous. But we shouldn't lose sight of the psychology here. People get high on doom.

2026.09.23 17:24

In all of this we have forgotten to discuss the fact that people *get high* on the idea of the apocalypse. There is a reverie the human organism finds in it, which wells up and recurs throughout history. Of course this doesn't mean that next time isn't different. It could be. Total nuclear war was actually dangerous. But we shouldn't lose sight of the psychology here. People get high on doom.