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Prepping for the Apocalypse Means Building Community

Movement Memos

CHAPTER

The Power of Storytelling

A paranoid in-group, out-group approach to apocalyptic storytelling can lend itself to reactionary fantasies. Stories that suggest everyone will be against us during some eventual, inevitable crisis are also used to justify and inspire acts of violence in the real world. As we have been conditioned to fear the disorder that authority and fiction have foretold, more than neoliberalism, fascism, or ecocide,. I'm not getting down on people who like black summer, by the way. I enjoy a lot of problematic television."

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