Word: armageddon
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...visions of an imminent energy Armageddon that seemed so plausible right after the 1973 Arab oil embargo have gradually faded, but the serious questions remain: How much oil does the world have left? When will...
...course, somewhere in the collective unconscious (heavy on the un) lurks the specter of Armageddon, but even that fear has been defused, what with these new-fangled, clean, tactical weapons. And like many other vaguely leftist movements without mass appeal, the anti-nuclear juggernaut has generated more scorn than support...
Thus, unlike many of his colleagues, Leakey does not believe that modern man is necessarily programmed for Armageddon. Other species faded and died out simply because they had no choice. "But in our case," says the Anthro- pologist, "extinction would be entirely of our own making, the result of being intelligent enough to create the means of our own destruction but not rational enough to ensure that they are not used...
...stupidest people in the world except for businessmen, who have a genius for stupidity"; the League of Women Voters is "a bunch of nosy broads who front for the big spenders"; others who oppose his beloved proposition, "dummies, goons, cannibals or big-mouths." The tax issue, he says, is "Armageddon, a war of machetes. They're going to cut off our heads. Or we're going to cut off theirs...
Other Afrikaners talk about the sacrifices that lie ahead. Implicit in these phrases may be a startling notion: that the Afrikaners, short of the long-predicted Armageddon, might conceivably be prepared to hitch up their ox wagons once again and retreat backward toward the old Boer republics and the Cape, striking some sort of bargain in power sharing or land sharing with rivaling black nationalism. Any such solution would lie in the distant future. For the moment, there is only a sense throughout the beleaguered white tribe that the present system cannot hold, but that the prescriptions decreed...