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[Ward8G]

Every now and then I get to feeling I’d like the world to just go away. I long to escape from the day to day dull doldrums, the race from every morning to every night to get ahead, the daily exercise in patience to prevent myself from punching the next idiot who not only seems to not be able to think for themselves, but for all intents and purposes seems to be actively doing the opposite!

Now I wish to enter at this point that I have never, and will never even consider the option of checking myself out.. No, this isn’t about me, it’s about everybody else! in other words: it’s not me, it’s you. It’s about the longing and wishing for the “End of the World” as we know it.. a Hard Reset.. a Clean Slate. Of course I’m not talking about absolutely everyone, I mean it’s ridiculous to assume that everybody on Earth is an asshole!.. for starters I haven’t met everybody on Earth so I wouldn’t know. I’m talking about the vast overwhelming majority.. starting of course with the paedophiles, rapists and murderers, through more general psychopaths including religious extremists and political dictators.. or any politicians for that matter.. thieves, abusers and bullies, or anyone who seeks to deprive us of our liberty by abusing the system, and the controllers of that same system who tar us all with the same brush.. right through to the moron who cuts you up on the roundabout every morning on the way to work.. the self-absorbed / self-loathing ignorants who grunt and moan their way through life like the cast of some European low-budget zombie apocalypse film.. with sub-titles… hmm, maybe the world as we know it has already ended? hang on, if this is the world as we know it… ?! anyway, let’s move on before I talk myself into paradox corner.. again.

My favourite subject for fiction is the Doomsday Scenario, always has been.. from watching Mad Max as a child, to reading a full length copy of Stephen King’s “The Stand” from cover to cover with scarcely a break, (I called in sick for two days to read that book!), and films like Outbreak / Contagion, Deep Impact / Armageddon, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Day After Tomorrow, I Am Legend and Independence Day.. Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead! The Walking Dead, 28 Days Later, Survivors, Revolution and Falling Skies… the list goes on.. and on! Popular Culture is littered with examples of people fantasising about the End of the World. Through natural disasters, chemical or biological means, war, asteroid impact or alien invasion, it appears there are a lot of people thinking about the same thing, from the writers who create these stories to the masses who queue up to read or watch them, it seems to me that most of us are aware that something is going to have to change… soon! But what? What could we really choose to do that would give the world a chance to start again? Would anyone choose to wipe out millions of people? And who decides who the survivors are? I guess it’s ridiculous to think that there is anything that we, the population of Earth, could do to wipe the slate clean.. well, not by choice anyway. Or is it? Every day we choose to ignore global warming and the depletion of natural resources, we stick our heads in the sand to subjects like the chances of being hit by a comet or asteroid, the increasing risk of a new Swine/Bat/Bird virus which could potentially be another Spanish Flu (only worse, due to the world being a lot smaller place than a hundred years ago), or my personal favourite Alien Invasion!

Okay so some of these scenarios are a more realistic possibility than others, but all of them present us with a situation we can do very little about.. except of course to try and survive on a personal level, then form small groups of survivors, decide on a common goal and go on a journey / quest which will test our will to survive, while still exploring the effect that the whole experience will have on inter-personal relationships and the social structure of the group.. the leadership selection process will provide weeks of entertainment, and range from fights to the death to heated intellectual debate laced with sarcasm.. and gurning, and I’m sure sorting the rest of the pecking order will be no less complicated. We’ll decide on jobs for everyone, from gathering food to keeping an eye out for rival groups who present a threat, (because we will inevitably have something very valuable which they will want), and we will fight together and work together to get our lives and our world back to what it was before… but the Reality will of course, be very different. Most people will probably only crawl out from under their beds when hunger tips rational thought out the window, but things will probably be fine till the supermarkets are empty, even considering there’ll be no power, clean water, healthcare or government organised waste collection / sewerage.. and of course there’ll be dead bodies littering the streets. From then on I reckon it’ll just be a matter of what kills them first: starvation, or disease.

Yeah, surviving the apocalypse probably isn’t looking so pretty any more.. and I can only imagine what the smell will be like! But still, even taking all that into account, I still think the world would be a much better place without all the other people in it.. Bring on the end of the world!!

[itsybitsy]

Errrrrr...welcome?!

That's quite a tome you've presented us with there, and much of it seems rather vitriolic in nature. If you're so keen on ridding the world of the rest of humanity, what brings you to a *community* forum?

[Bad Wombat]

You're not a postal worker are you?

[unsure]

welcome , thats heavy going , so early in the morning

[Hamradioop]

welcome to the forum Ward8G

[Holomon]

You're not a postal worker are you?

Welcome to the forum.

[Brambles]

Funny way to say hello. It's defo not me, or the others, so it must be them.

[Ward8G]

ha ha, well I wasn't sure how to start so I pasted in an article I wrote which I think pretty much sums me up... (probably should mention that I wrote that after a particularly stressful day )

I'm hoping that this is the place to talk about being prepared? and how my own ideas compare to others.. though there appear to be a hell of a lot of topics going on, so I guess I'd like a little advice on how best to proceed... (and the Grand Entrance was just an attempt at getting a few responses )

thank you all for noticing, by the way...

[Hoipoloi]

In a parallel dimension, that first post wasn't there and I didn't read it.
I did some shopping instead.

[jansman]

The Grand Entrance got you noticed alright. welcome.