Doomsdayer

Someone in a crowd outside the barricaded chalet of the doomsdayers began a rocket-style countdown: “Five, four, three, two, one. …”

“No way this one’s going to miss us this time,” burbles one bebooted doomsdayer to another.

For all the dire warnings doomsdayers like to trumpet about imminent societal collapse, reality suggests that we’re pretty far from a precipice.