To Those Putting a Year on the Apocalypse

The potential for progress and its depletion

Jared Barlament
5 min readJan 29

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Everybody’s clamoring to know when their apocalypse will hit.

What was the talk of solidly fringe conspiracy bloggers, vloggers, authors, radio hosts and the like, 15 odd years ago, has turned into a shockingly commonplace agreement amongst Americans that the economic system our country has built all its vast wealth upon is unsustainable and will soon collapse under its own weight.

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Jared Barlament

Columbia University undergrad studying archaeology and philosophy. Writer trying to say something of interest every once in a while.