Apocalypse Is Coming: 2015 Fox Weighs In On The End (Or Just A Massive Reset)

Apocalypse Is Coming (Or Did It Already?)

It’s not just the preppers with bunkers full of canned soup, conspiracy theorists clutching their ham radios, or that one guy in your street who’s always talking about alien lizards running the banks. No. The idea that the world as we know it is about to fundamentally change has trickled into mainstream thinking. Even the Pope said it. Google it. He literally said World War 3 is already happening in “piecemeal.” That, and the popularity of preppers is the reason I wrote Apocalyse is Coming.

Still think it’s just paranoia? Try typing “Apocalypse is coming” into Google. Even back in 2015, it spat out tens of millions of results, and I promise you, very few of them were calm discussions about flower arranging.

I wrote this post in 2015, but in 2020 we discovered that we were pretty close when Covid hit.

The Collapse Isn’t Coming. It’s Already Started

Whether it’s a financial collapse, a man-made virus, a natural disaster, or something we haven’t even imagined yet, the idea of an imminent global upheaval isn’t fringe anymore. Society is fragile. Ridiculously fragile. We’re powered by greed, divided into rich and poor, obsessed with stuff we don’t need, and addicted to a power grid that would crumble if a single point of failure hiccups.

We require food. Shelter. Clean water. A working internet connection. Take away one or two of those, and things start to wobble. Take away three? Chaos. Four? Welcome to the end. Well… welcome to the beginning of the end and to the moment people whisper to themselves, Apocalypse is coming.

I spent years devouring pandemic novels and virus thrillers before writing Mr 303, my own apocalyptic virus novel released in 2016. I thought it was speculative fiction. Then the research hit me. Not only could a bioengineered virus bring the world to its knees, it was almost predictable.

Especially if it didn’t come from some rogue scientist in a lab coat with a God complex, but from a government with money, an agenda, and very little moral oversight. You don’t need a dystopian novel to see it. Just watch the news. Hell, sometimes you just need to scroll Twitter.

Fiction or Foreshadowing?

I remember reading Janelle Diller’s The Virus and thinking, this is too close for comfort. I won’t spoil the plot, but if you’re into dystopian thrillers with a heavy dose of “oh God, this could happen,” it’s worth a read.

These books don’t just entertain. They warn. They reflect the growing unease that something big is brewing under the surface, and maybe it’s already started.

But unlike many apocalyptic thrillers that assume humans would immediately devolve into cannibalistic chaos, I don’t buy it. I think most people, when the dust settles, would scramble to rebuild. Sure, the first wave would be ugly. Desperation brings out the worst in people. But so does hope. And I’d like to think that for every scavenger, there’s someone trying to plant tomatoes. Because even if the apocalypse is coming, it doesn’t mean we’re all turning into psychopaths overnight.

If the World Breaks, Who Do We Become?

We’ve been trained to think in binary. Collapse or utopia. But reality is messier. I don’t believe humanity crumbles completely. I think we adapt, improvise, argue, scream, and then build something new out of the ashes. Whether it’s better or not is up for debate.

If the world goes to shit, and that is looking increasingly possible depending on which five minutes of the news you catch, I’ll probably end up on a farm somewhere in Europe. Growing crops. Purifying water. Doing my best not to kill the tomatoes (if I even survive). Trying to keep whatever’s left of civilisation pointed in the right direction with my voice, in my tiny corner of the world.

Or maybe I’ll just be hiding in a wine cellar, arguing with someone over who gets the last bottle of wine. Priorities.

Whatever happens, the point is this. Something is coming. You can feel it in your gut, in your bones, in that uneasy part of your brain that never fully quiets down anymore. We are overdue for a reset. Whether you believe it or not, people are waking up to the idea that the apocalypse is coming. And maybe it’s not even a disaster. Maybe it’s a correction.

The only question is, how bad will it be before it gets better?

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Originally written in 2015 and slightly less delusional now that 2020 happened.

Oh… speaking of delusional. Check out Good Luck Getting Rid of Me.