It's July, the middle of summer. A lot of people are at the seaside cooking themselves in the sun, getting skin cancer, stung by jellyfish, eaten by sharks or getting dragged into the depths by gangbanging dolphins. A bit fewer are up in the mountains, enjoying the beauty of nature, getting bitten, stung or eaten by insects, snakes and other wildlife and getting lost or falling off high cliffs, never to be seen again. But what's that got to do with the title? Well, it's the intro. Beyond the carefree idleness that spans what we now call summer vacation, opposite natural disasters ravage the lands! Ferocious floods and storms have caused damage worth billions ( in some currency), leaving behind hundreds of dead and over a thousand missing. Soon after, heat and blaze now scorch both man and nature, with the former melting us where we stand and the latter turning all to ash. Tldr of this babble: What do you think it will take for people to start yelling on the streets "The Apocalypse is Here!!!" and not be considered raving lunatics by the general populace?
Don't forget that there is a 65% probability of a giant solar flare causing a massive blackout occuring today https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...olar-storm-news-forecast-coronal-hole-sun/amp
when the numbers of raving lunatics (people who believes that there is apocalypse) outnumber the rest of the populace. for an example you can watch Robotics Notes anime. In the anime there was a guy who guides the whole population into believing an apocalypse while the truth is it is only hoax.
Here's the problem with that: If you get your hopes up and then shit goes down, you'll end up missing each other... So don't get your hopes up for this, just get down with it. So if one would take control of the media and have it release a number of consistent fake news, then the hoax might turn true?
Except for that one neighbour who takes joy at their misfortune. Height wise, everything is a loli in Japan. So, I can see your point. Because it's short. I did say it was raining.. We pop up like mushrooms.. and snails.
You mean 'machoists'. Well, then there are the insane too. I thought we were discussing normal people. People are indifferent deep down. You hear, hundreds died on the another side of the world. @Slayerwolfx2 posted sometime earlier today of a disastrous fire that killed many in Athens. You may feel pity for these people, and you may even hold sympathy for them. But unless there's something connecting you to them, you won't truly feel pain or sorrow. If you had previously, just exchanged some words with the people before they died, you would have felt much worse. Similarly, when disaster strikes at your door, it will become connected to you. And suddenly, the thought of the world ending wouldn't look familiar to you. And people would only accept the end of the world, when they are assured that the said disaster would reach them too, eventually. Maybe a distant comet approaching the earth, threatening to destroy whatever it holds. People would feel fear, for they know, the disaster would reach them, and hence the situation is connected to them. So say, if a very distant country is destroyed, there will be a lot of exclamations and surprise. There will be sorrow, and there will be prayers. But people won't connect to the disaster, unless it becomes a threat to them.