The sky is falling. It'll get here eventually.
The above image features very serious people standing very seriously as they treat a very serious clock super seriously.
This super serious clock sits at “90 seconds to midnight”. Cease your eye roll, you must treat it seriously. The time is set by the collection of super serious “scientists” who super seriously calculate how close humanity is to a super serious global catastrophe.
It’s all fear-mongering garbage rhetoric by out-of-touch so-called “experts”, of course.
Every January, we are reminded of the existence of a board of weirdos (titled the “Chicago Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists”) who get together to discuss where exactly the hand of this clock should be for the year. They consider everything from the threat of nuclear war to climate change to viral outbreaks.
However, as it does not measure by any objective standard, the clock is essentially meaningless.
An unelected group of elitist academics meeting behind closed doors is surely no indication of an accurate measurement. They're essentially telling us that the world is about to end because their fingers are getting colder. They ignore reality on the basis of their limited perspective, while simultaneously convincing themselves and others of their relevance. This is a no-joke scenario, man.
You can tell from the picture that they take themselves very seriously – too serious for anyone else to rightfully care. Who in their right mind wants to be told where mankind stands in terms of destruction? Nobody does, and when you receive such information, you are going to react in two ways.
People who know the trickery that comes out of the mouths of experts will scoff and rightfully laugh. The unfortunate ones who still take such a title so seriously will have their ears perk up, and they will listen, and they will obey.
The very existence of the clock serves to stoke a sense of nihilism, fatalism, and obedience among the population. By positing a measure of global disaster, it encourages a sense of helplessness in the face of the threats faced by humanity, and lost people will absolutely bow down to a savior. I have detailed it before in these scriptures, how the job of most “experts”, like politicians, is to run their mouths to get people on their side for reasons that only benefit themselves.
“They don't do it for charity. They are self-serving. They are causing generations to have their will to live sucked out of them over an apocalypse that will never come. They want to set the stage to maximize profit off misery, naivety, and hope.”
Opinions of this fearmonger-clock nonsense is thankfully shifting. Mainstream media (cheesy word, I know) is happy to make it seem like this thing is anything but a joke. It sits in its "90 seconds to midnight" as if humanity is a dozen wrong breaths away from total annihilation – meanwhile, the world population steadily grows past eight billion (as of writing this). It would take the earth falling apart piece by piece to get rid of us at this rate.
“When I actually looked into this thing, my jaw hot the floor. It’s literally just the opinion of its relevant members. And in the era where most academics have no real-world experience outside the ivory tower, it's a wonder anyone actually still takes in seriously.”
“This thing has been nonsense clickbait / page-filler from its inception, and no one has actually paid attention to it (if they did at all) since the novelty died 30 years ago. Not only is it completely arbitrary, but it ironically also encourages a sense of nihilism and fatalism. At least when climate scientists are sounding the alarm, they back it with hard data. This thing is as meaningful as the declarations from a Magic 8 Ball.”
Mainstream news outlets are happy to give a theatrical sentimental campaign to any so-called expert doomsayers nowadays. I've got an expert-wizard license from the Snapian Wizardry Academy to Beat All Other Wizardry Academies (SWABAOW). I propose we start a new campaign: the Doomsday chicken. If it lays a black egg, we're all going to die. Be sure to donate to the cause.
