Part 2 — Effective Fusion Power Is Near, and It Will Destroy Everything — Beginning with Our Politics
Alright, here’s the “destroy” part of all of this.
In Alan Moore’s masterpiece, Watchmen, there’s a character who can flawlessly predict the future right up to an inflection point where something happens, which he cannot see, that means that everything after that is impossible to predict. The event is an apocalypse, both narratively and literally. Let’s talk about that “literally” for a minute.
Walking Dead Is Not an Apocalypse
“Apocalypse” has come to mean “end of the world as we know it” lately, but what it really means is “revelation”. The ancient Greek word apokálupsis means “revelation”, or less poetically, “laying bare” or “disclosure”. The word apocalypse has acquired the secondary meaning of “end of the world as we know it”, because that’s certainly what the Book of Revelation calls for, the Book of Apokálupsis.
We face an apocalypse with fusion power because it fundamentally changes all of the premises upon which the modern world rests.
So, let’s accept the secondary meaning of apocalypse as “end of the world as we know it”…
