Re: virus: May 5, 2000

Jeff Labond (missing.30@mci2000.com)
Fri, 29 May 1998 12:21:45 -0400

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Sodom wrote:

> I dont really know anyone who thinks anything is going to happen (that I am
> aware of) They all seem to think nothing dramatic will happen. What do you
> suspect and why?
>
> Sodom
>

Well, I can't be specific because i'm not aware of anything too specific, but
there are always fringe groups with doomsayers as their voice of authority, and
i believe (there's that word again...) that there should be/ has been/ will be
an increase in, if not the actual number of aforementioned groups, then the
outspokenness of their 'prophesies' due to either a more acute awareness of the
media, (which in and of itself would be due, i think, to the approaching
millennia), or an increase in the actual number of groups.

Another more mundane observation might be pop culture, not the usual 'society
is goin' to hell in a hand basket' but the increase in global catastrophe
entertainment, the first film that comes to mind is "Armageddon" due to be
released soon, then recent memory recalls some film with the tag line "The
Coast is Toast" , granted, to me, and to most others, these are just second
rate films that came and went in a hurry, but they MAY also be an indication of
a sense of impending doom, real or NOT, that resides in our collective
unconscious.

bendingyourear
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Sodom wrote:

I dont really know anyone who thinks anything is going to happen (that I am
aware of) They all seem to think nothing dramatic will happen. What do you
suspect and why?

Sodom
 

Well, I can't be specific because i'm not aware of anything too specific, but there are always fringe groups with doomsayers as their voice of authority, and i believe (there's that word again...) that there should be/ has been/ will be an increase in, if not the actual number of aforementioned groups, then the outspokenness of their 'prophesies' due to either a more acute awareness of the media, (which in and of itself would be due, i think, to the approaching millennia), or an increase in the actual number of groups.

Another more mundane observation might be pop culture, not the usual 'society is goin' to hell in a hand basket' but the increase in global catastrophe entertainment, the first film that comes to mind is "Armageddon" due to be released soon, then recent memory recalls some film with the tag line "The Coast is Toast" , granted, to me, and to most others, these are just second rate films that came and went in a hurry, but they MAY also be an indication of a sense of impending doom, real or NOT, that resides in our collective unconscious.

bendingyourear
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