Is there any good fiction or movie about a slow, completely foreseeable apocalypse, unfolding over say 50 years? Everything I can think of seems to imagine a sharp cliff over days or weeks, but decades is what seems likely.
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Asimov’s Lije Bailey novels + Empire novels are a really slow earth apocalypse over many generations, but that’s *too* slow
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If there’s such a thing as an end-times mass psychology I think we’re experiencing it now. Not just an isolated cult with cartoon doomsday beliefs, but a sort of now-or-never endgame mentality. Putin logic is everywhere. It’s a kind of iterated prisoner’s dilemma defection era.
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Everyone mentioning the Peripheral… as I understand, that’s the before/after of the jackpot not the “during”
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William Gibson's Jackpot trilogy has an apocalypse like that in the background, although it's not about that exactly.
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This is EXACTLY the discussion around 's The Peripheral, where the slow-moving apocalypse, labelled the Jackpot, sees 80% of the population dying off over a ~40 year period, leaving behind only the rich and the lucky.
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I guess the bible is basically different guys warning other guys about different apocalyptic events and then doing whatever they were doing anyway
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