Apocolypse and Pop-Culture

“…And I Feel Fine” Pop-culture has adopted the apocalypse as one of the many topics it encompasses. The end of the world is a piece of entertainment for the reader, viewer, or listener. But it is far more than just a little entertainment. Almost every piece of entertainment contains a happy ending. Because of pop-culture’s “happy ending syndrome” in movies, books, and songs, society has become immune to the eerie feelings that the apocalypse …showed first 75 words of 2003 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2003 total…spin on the view of the end of the world and it is no longer a thing to take so seriously or to ponder over. It is merely a piece of entertainment. The world has grown immune to apocalyptic fright and has come to accept the end of existence. Television, music, and literature have all played their roles in constructing this immunization and the world will never look at the apocalypse in the same way.