The Davos Apocalypse

The Horseman of the Jewish Apocalypse

Now, back to the unfolding apocalypse.

Scene from a movie Apocalypse Now great movie.

Back then, the specter of the Apocalypse helped keep borrowing cheap.

Eman al Nafjan tweets a picture of the apocalypse to come

Responding with military aid will simply turn a catastrophe into an apocalypse.

Today s crisis is acute, but there is no sense of an approaching apocalypse.

So, what threatens to happen with this unfolding apocalypse is the collapse of global social organization.

Engaging Iran is also the only way to stave off a nuclear apocalypse in the region.

If you've heard about the Mayan 2012 apocalypse, you're going to hear about Apophis, because you're keyed in to all the doomsday networks anyway.

I'm sorry it was a cheap laugh, but I wanted to find a way to transition back to this idea of the unfolding apocalypse, and I thought that might do it.

This is old information we've known since about the 80s, yet there's no medicine I can prescribe to a patient with this or any of the numerous solid tumors caused by these three horsemen of the apocalypse that is cancer.

And to be honest, if I had known when I was asked to give this upbeat talk that even as I was giving the upbeat talk, the apocalypse would be unfolding I might have said, Is it okay if I talk about something else?

Whether we actively believe them or consciously reject them, our culture remains in the grips of certain archetypal stories about our supremacy over others and over nature the narrative of the newly discovered frontier and the conquering pioneer, the narrative of manifest destiny, the narrative of apocalypse and salvation.