https://aeon.co/essays/the-human-world-is-not-more-fragile-now-it-always-has-been
It is because humans can fail to reach their rational potential and be 'everywhere in chains' that they must ever more vigilantly secure their future.
The most reduced, enslaved, depleted and lifeless terrains are still opportunities for 'humanity' to confront the possibility of non-existence in order to achieve a more resilient future.
These films whisper: take a second glance at the present, and what looks like a desperate situation might actually be an occasion for enhancement. The very world that appears to be at the brink of destruction is really a world of opportunity.
What contemporary post-apocalyptic culture fears isn't the end of 'the world' so much as the end of 'a world' - the rich, white, leisured, affluent one.
