See below. On 2020-06-28 00:00, Mirimir wrote:
And the rest of the year could well be worse. As in global financial meltdown. And the rest of the decade could bring the end of our entire civilization. AKA the Jackpot. Or at least, over the inflection point.
The term "the Jackpot" of course comes from William Gibson's 2014 science fiction novel The Peripheral. There's nowadays a subreddit r/collapse where redditors discuss, well, "the collapse", that being their term. I've been wondering for a while - what other terms, from science fiction or Internet subcultures or elsewhere - are there for this current thing humanity is experiencing? Besides "the Jackpot" and "the collapse", can anyone list any additional widely or significantly used ones? (Not to mention, just, an anthropogenic mass extinction event. Cue reactionaries on this list freaking out because they are primed to protect dolla dolla bill from evidence of global warming etc.) Doug