Why are apocalyptic settings so popular with the public?
Whether it's a zombie apocalypse or a nuclear apocalypse, completely normal people are obsessed with it. You even get people who are creating "zombie apocalypse vehicles." What does this mean about our society?
we have built a seeming invincible society. We now have complete control over nature and the coarse of the earth. We have built great cities and the idea of loosing control is interesting to the public. Also because we have created so much law and governance in our society that it can interesting to play through the moral challenges societal break down presents.
>asteroid hits earth
They know something is wrong right now, They can feel it but don't know the reason or do not what acknowledge it and instead they project it onto the apocalypse genre.
I would like to think if I go down I'm not the only one that is fucked.
that's alittle different. I feel like the phenomena you're speaking of is less about total annihilation and rather what comes next. Hollywood asteroids leaves little left to scavenge. Although again it could be interesting to see how people behave if earths destruction was emanate
Discontent invades different aspects of people's lives but we all share in that discontent. The idea of all of one's hopes and worries being swept away by an unstoppable force may in thought outweigh the negatives that such a scenario would bring.
Similarly, morbid curiosity and base instincts cannot be completely suppressed by a modern society and given the invincibility of a third party viewing of movies and video games, I would suspect that a subconscious part of ourselves believes we would succeed in such a world even against the odds.
because modern world does not suit us. we are still almost the same as many thousands of years ago yet technological progress has completely changed our world many times in the last century alone
we evolved to live in the wild. an apocalypse would bring us back into the state our body was made for
We've gone too far as a species and now crave our own destruction.
Anything would be more exciting than this bland, monotonous, hilariously broken existence.
Because you get to start over, you get the one thing the entire world currently lacks. Freedom.
Sure you have hard times and death but you also no longer have someone watching you 24/7, taxing you to the point of serfdom or telling you how to think and feel. We honestly trade our freedom away for safety all the time.
Also so many of us are so dirt poor and will stay that way, we would end up being "rich" in comparison. Especially in the US, whatever apocalypse it is, if you are lucky enough to survive, no end of loot to be had.