☄️Awaiting apocalypse: My chat with journalist and author Dorian Lynskey

About this episode

James Pethokoukis chats with journalist Dorian Lynskey about the narratives surrounding the end of the world and the impact of hope and fear on human action.

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Since humanity’s beginning, we’ve been pondering about our end. From war, to disease, to divine reckoning, the means of our destruction seem endless. The advent of the atomic bomb, concerns around climate change, and now AI have prompted many to wonder whether our demise will be random, or if it will come as the result of our own actions. Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast , I chat with Dorian Lynskey about the way we talk about the end times. We discuss whether catastrophizing leads to action or paralysis and the role of hope in our narratives. Lynskey is a prolific journalist and the author of three books. His most recent: Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World , which was released last month in the US. He also co-hosts two podcasts, Origin Story and Oh God, What Now?. In This Episode * Scare Tactics (1:32) * Effects of Hopefulness (10:25) * AI Doomsayers (17:01) * Countdown to Catastrophe (21:15) (A lightly edited transcript of our conversation will be appear in my Week in Review issue on Saturday. Another option is using the Substack auto transcript function.)…

People in this episode

Host: James Pethokoukis

Guest: Dorian Lynskey

Topics covered

• apocalypse
• catastrophizing
• hope
• AI
• end times
• journalism

Keywords

• apocalypse
• Dorian Lynskey
• hope
• AI doomsayers
• catastrophe
• journalism
• end of the world

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Origin Story, Oh God, What Now?

Books & works: Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

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