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.
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.