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Psychology Reveals the Comforts of the Apocalypse

• By Daisy Yuhas on December 18, 2012

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...he-apocalypse/

..."I talk to kids in my practice and they see it as a good thing. They say, 'life would be so simple—I'd shoot some zombies and wouldn't have to go to school,'" Schlozman says. In both literature and in speaking with patients, Schlozman has noticed that people frequently romanticize the end times. They imagine surviving, thriving and going back to nature. Schlozman recently had an experience that eerily echoed Orson Welles's 1938 The War of the Worlds broadcast. He was discussing his book on a radio program and they had to cut the show short when listeners misconstrued his fiction for fact. He believes the propensity to panic is not constant in history but instead reflects the times.

In today's complicated world with terrorism, war, fiscal cliffs and climate change, people are primed for panic.

Pope Jim? Surely this is a sign of the apocalypse!