7/9/2023 0 Comments Rat utopia universe 25![]() ![]() But no one wants to talk to me about the end of the world in this maze of culs-de-sac and Spanish style houses. ![]() ![]() I’ve been wearing it a lot lately, and this place seemed like it needed a reminder. This is why I’ve decided to walk around the community wearing a shirt that says: THE END IS NEAR. Even the sky looks like it’s been injected with Botox. Even if Ponce de León never found his Fountain of Youth, these people have found a way to manufacture something close to it. He looks better than me, and I’m actually in my 30s. Even our friend, who is in his 70s, somehow looks 30. Nothing seems to age, nothing seems to die. I’m here for a funeral and staying with a family friend who happens to have the kind of money one needs to live in a place that gives off the illusion of immortality. You wouldn’t know the world was ending if you were standing here with me behind the tall manicured hedges and palm trees of this gated community in South Florida. Some people go outside and prepare as if it’s the last day on Earth - and others go outside like it’s just any other day. The apocalypse has become a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-type of game that we all play now. The death of God or the spread of disinformation. We can’t even agree on what the end of the world even looks like. I don’t know if that means the world itself is ending, but our lives have been fundamentally mutilated and there’s no coming back from it. I think it’s fair to say the world we used to know has ended. ![]()
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