Coping With Doomsday
About this episode
The episode explores the rise of doomsday prepping and its impact on society's anxiety and preparedness.
Doomsday prepping has gone mainstream. What was once a fringe fixation tucked away on conspiracy forums has morphed into a booming industry, with everyday people stockpiling, strategising, and spending (a lot) in the name of “being prepared.” This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson sit with the existential threats uniquely shaping our generation, the preppers taking that fear to its furthest extreme, the brands that saw an opportunity to sell safety, and ultimately ask whether a state of hypervigilance actually soothes our anxiety or just feeds it. After all, what’s worse: the apocalypse (and the world’s least satisfying “I told you so”), or realising you spent your life waiting for it? Prepper Used To Be A Dirty Word. But These 'Ordinary' People Think It's Just Sensible Now by Alexandra Koster, SBS Australia What Doomsday Preppers And Survivalists Can Teach The Rest Of Us , by Anna Levy and Rebecca Cushway, ABC The ‘Panic Industry’ Boom by Coralie Kraft, The New York Times The cognitive avoidance theory of worry , Sibrava, N. and Borkovec, T in APA PsycInfo Blast From The Past Pandemic Practice: Horror Fans And Morbidly Curious Individuals Are More Psychologically Resilient…
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