Blockbuster films ignore the real harbinger of the apocalypse: ignorance of science
Nothing’s older than a fear of the apocalypse. Popular stories about the apocalypse date back until at least The Epic of Gilgamesh, a Mesopotamian poem featuring a world-ending flood and a vengeful god, written around 2100 BC. But how have our visions of the end of the world changed through popular media like movies, and what can that tell us about staving it off?
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