Unveiling Truths Amid Chaos: Ed Simon’s Radical Take on Writing in the Apocalypse
In his first “letter from the collapse,” Simon notes that “Ours is the age of Covid and QAnon, supply chain breakdown and surveillance capitalism, food shortages and armed militias, climate change and bio-collapse.” One could say that this is the Anthropocene: systemic collapse, which just happens to include climate change. Simon argues against those who don’t want to compare the fall of Rome to the fall of the West, saying “our current problems aren’t like the fall of Rome because they’re far, far worse.” Despite this, he sees hope (as defined by Rebecca Solnit: “To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”) in unionizing fast food workers, the Great Resignation, and more.
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