Sad Max: Bored Warrior of the Asexual Apocalypse

20th December 2014

 

By Jay Dyer

 

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

 

I grew up loving George Miller’s post-apocalyptic Mad Max series. I think all of us, like rubber-neckers at an accident, have some inner fascination with the potential for a complete collapse and destruction of the existing order and the hope for something new, and often the human imagination projects such yearnings into art in a unique way.

 

The energy of revolutionary impulse, ever tied to this desire for radical change, has long been harnessed and utilized for subversive ends by historical power blocs, and in our day, the explosion of apocalypse-themed novels, films, graphic novels and art reflects this inner want – but the manipulation now functions on a much larger scale. Arising from Cold War terrors of constant media-hyped threats of nuclear war, engineered apocalypticism was discovered to be a powerful tool of social engineering in psychological warfare.

 

What if, instead of actually destroying things on a mass scale, the public psyche could simply be inundated with the constant fear of such a disaster? Much cheaper, and still very effective, fear brings impotence: I know, just ask my last girlfriend (Ha! Zing!)

 

Reflect again on our recent noozmedia blockbusters – we have the mass faux zombie outbreak and Ebola, the new “Cold War” with Russia replete with nuclear threats from neo-cons, the climateapocalypse of global warming and myriad other absent crises always on the horizon.

 

What does come in a steady stream is manufactured fear from PR companies and think tanks.

 

So what if, instead of the end of civilization coming, not even with “a whimper and not a bang”, it sneaks upon us with a gradualism of megalomaniac trademark mediocrity? This is not to say there wouldn’t be economic collapses or mass disasters and pandemics, but those tend to have a short lifespan for fearporn ends in the grand scheme – only a few months or years tops in mass media marquee letters.

 

What if the coming global end comes through monoculture and the new world order sloughs and waddles its way down the frozen pizza aisle with supremely boring methods, like Candy Crush, corn syrup and consumerist standardization? The nightmare of the now – silly putty people of the novus ordo devolve into a Gumby-like cut-outs that can be molded, shaped, dissolved and coagulated as GloboCorp sees fit through much more subtle, dull means than mass cataclysms.

 

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