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Apocalypse As Endless Barbecue



I just thought of a great way to re-envision the apocalypse: as an endless barbecue. Think about it. During barbecues, you gather your tribe together: your family, friends and neighbors. The young ones run around and play games. The older ones laugh and talk to each other. Everybody works together to bring food and make preparations and clean up. Imagine your whole life as a big barbecue. So what if civilization falls? Seems like it would be pretty awesome. I mean, obviously this is a kind of starry-eyed vision of how things could go down - but who’s to say it can’t be this way? Why does it necessarily have to be bloodshed and chaos and the reign of Satan on earth? Anyway, I bet Satan is fucking great at grilling food outside. And everybody knows he has the funniest jokes and the best music.







3 Reader Responses

  1. Haeresis Says:
    May 26th, 2005 at 6:53 pm

    The problem with this scenario is the human misery index. It’s goijg to be tough to be a cheerful tribe when a toothache* is a life-threatening illness, or when any of our modern me4dical take-for-granteds fail.

    *My own personal example. Two weeks ago, I was watching a special about King Tut, where they were doing a forensic examination of the mummy. One possibility put forward as a cause of death was a tooth problem. I did some head shaking and didn’t give it any more thought until I developed the same dental problem. Two painful surgeries later, I am no longer “cautiously optinmistic” about the failure of civilization.

  2. Lemuel Pitkin Says:
    May 27th, 2005 at 12:51 am

    Unfortunately, for many of us, life already is like a barbecue - and we are the meat roasting on the grill. The collapse of the giant killing machine that is our civilization might seem like an idea with possibilities, but the machine has already steamrollered so many of us, in both body and spirit, that we are barely holding on as it is. Overwhelmed as I already am, with depression and anxiety and social phobia and all that kind of fun stuff, I can’t imagine what would become of me if it all fell apart. This society specializes in taking bright, imaginative people and breaking their spirits with intolerance, stupidity and cruelty, and as a result, many of us who have the talents and inclinations to be a part of something better probably aren’t going to be much good for anything if the End comes.

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