Well, I know that the apocalyptic imagination is usually a lack of imagination; it refuses to face the dull prose of suffering, refuses to understand just how bad things can get without history coming to an end. Empires can limp on for centuries.

—Atem at Metameat

Referring to apocalyptic worldviews, not apocalyptic fiction, of course.

(Via Kevin Huizenga.)

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