Word: apocalypticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THE POSTMAN Video-store bait: Kevin Costner's movie about post-apocalyptic America sinks like a stone
Why does Kevin Costner keep doing these post-apocalyptic flicks? Is it because he still owns a pair of Waterworld goggles that would otherwise go to waste? Or does he just love creating scenarios wherein women inquire about the quality of his semen?
What was it about this particular year that had so many people running in hysterical packs? Were these mass demonstrations brought on by apocalyptic, fin-de-siecle anxieties about the approaching millennium? By a general frustration with emotional detachments that have characterized recent years? Or by suppressed feelings about other...
The frustration-with-detachment theory may sound more plausible than the apocalyptic, but is only slightly more down to earth. From the mid-1970s on, there has been an increasing disengagement of people from government, politics, community and, in some ways, from themselves; moreover, this disengagement has been actively sought...
Was Wall Street's recent stock-market paroxysm just an isolated incident? Obviously, nearly everyone hopes so. But students of gloom and doom have developed some apocalyptic scenarios. A sampler: