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Ep 54 - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

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Why We Watch Apocalyptic Movies and Read Fiction About the End of the World

Every 100 million years or so, there is a mass extinction. The few straggling survivors are tasked with starting it all again. These stories force us to contemplate our own existential crisis. We're at this current time as close to utopia as we could be - and yet we don't appreciate it.

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