Exciting post-apocalypse adventures
There’s something I don’t say because I take it for granted, and some people don’t say because they don’t believe it, or don’t want to admit it: Everybody wants the apocalypse. Everybody wants a holy fire to cleanse the world of stuff they don’t like. The poor want to kill the rich, the rich want to kill the poor, every religion wants to forcibly convert every other religion, and we all want to blow up the Ministry of Information and scatter all the papers to the wind. In my heart, I want a super-hard crash so I can have exciting postapocalypse adventures, but my mind knows that’s bullshit. In a real hard crash, only psychopaths would be having a good time. The rest of us need a slow transition, driven not by force but by pain and learning and conscious choices
Worth thinking about. At the moment, I’m fascinated by the hidden motivations behind people’s actions. I’ve been trying to guess people’s MBTI types as a kind of shorthand (which is probably one of the MBTI’s best applications - as a language of useful stereotypes).
Also, it would be fun to write some ‘exciting post-apocalypse adventures’ in a kind of Pratchettian/Adamsian style.
Posted in News and such
April 21st, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Not sure I quite get the relationship between myers-brigs and post apocalypse?
But yeah, nice quote. I want a zombie apocalypse.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I kind of segwayed from “Everybody (secretly) wants the apocalypse” to ‘Aren’t hidden desires and motivations fascinating?’. Very NP.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I am INFP. I don’t know how useful that would make me in an exciting zombie apocalypse, but it will help nail down those stereotypes.
What are you?
April 21st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I guessed that. I’m INFP as well. Hm, now to further test my intuitive powers…I think David is an ENTP. Am I far off?
April 24th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I have to keep reminding myself that a hard crash wouldn’t be that fun. The trouble is (a) my live seems so boring and comfortable that anything else seems fun (occasionally, even working in Iraq doesn’t seem like a bad idea. It’d give life some pep) and (b) almost all our accounts of crises and conflicts have been glamourised and glorified. We think of everything in terms of how it looks in movies, which is, of course, exciting and fun.
So yeah, I want the apocalypse. Part of it is also that a hard restart seems a lot easier than a gradual transition. Drawn-out things are just so much hard work. And dammit, I *do* long for a bit of wilderness and wide open spaces, and that ain’t going to happen unless a huge number of people vanish (or I find a different country.)
I too am a member of the prestigious INFP club :).