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"America's fascination with the apocalypse"
video at link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18877449
"The end of the world is nigh. Or so you might think if you immersed yourself in American popular culture...From TV adverts to Hollywood movies, depictions of post-apocalyptic worlds are everywhere...There is a long tradition of such apocalyptic thinking in the US. But as Matthew Barrett Gross and Mel Giles argue in their book The Last Myth, it has now moved beyond religious prophecies into the secular world..."
