Elijah OneHot take: post-apocalyptic fiction is so popular because people desperately want to live lives that aren't yoked by capitalism, but are unable to even conceive of such a thing happening without the world ending first
Plants and Leftism@ELJ1 even hotter take: post-apocalyptic fiction is so popular because it's the "when government does things it's socialism" meme taken to it's natural conclusion, a society where trust is impossible and doing things as a group means you will eventually become evil to survive.
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