whose world is ending ??
September 22, 2022•236 words
people always talk about the end of the world
we posit our lives in its reference
but whose world is ending ??
the worlds world ??
no
the world is fine (or will be again)
the only world that is really ending (for sure) is mine
the writer of this fragment—the reader of this fragment
were obsessed with the total destruction of the planet !! (yeah—awesome or yeah—terrible)
or maybe were obsessed with the end of financial or cultural worlds (that markets will crash or morals will be so flimsy theyll have to be held together by the government)
we think change in other people will be the end of our world
when the world that is ending that is most important to us (each of our personal physical existences) we hardly talk about at all
or think about at all (compared to that relatively distant large world) we fill our minds with via the news
meanwhile
our bodies are ending
the minds within them are ending
why focus on a world we cant control—whose end we cannot comprehend ??
why not focus instead on a world (that matters much to most of us) whose end we also cannot comprehend (but we do know is going to end relatively quite soon) ??
isnt that the world end that might make a shit of difference to you ??
rather than the nebulous (end of the world) ??