{"id":14101,"date":"2026-04-27T08:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14101"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:56:06","slug":"a-popularcalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/27\/a-popularcalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"A Popularcalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/26\/briefing\/apocalypse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-198522a3\">The Apocalypse Goes Mainstream<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>About 40 percent of American adults believe that we are living in the \u201cend times,\u201d according to a 2022 poll. Where did that idea come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/lauren-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lauren Jackson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/04\/26\/multimedia\/26believing-pflm\/26believing-pflm-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"Federal law enforcement draws their weapons. \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho, in August 1992.\u00a0Credit&#8230;Mason Marsh\/Associated Press<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I grew up on a cul-de-sac in Arkansas, in a suburban house with a basketball hoop, a trampoline and a few years\u2019 worth of food stored in the garage. My parents built industrial shelves and lined them with gleaming canisters of freeze-dried potatoes and green beans, boxes of stabilized milk and Ziplocs of beef jerky. They also stored hundreds of pouches of mac n\u2019 cheese for me, the family\u2019s pickiest eater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My parents believed that the apocalypse loomed. They weren\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 40 percent of American adults said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2022\/12\/08\/about-four-in-ten-u-s-adults-believe-humanity-is-living-in-the-end-times\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a 2022 poll<\/a>&nbsp;that we are living in the \u201cend times.\u201d For much of the country, it\u2019s an idea that\u2019s almost mundane. The rapture is spliced into their Sunday sermons and enchants their world with a fearsome possibility. I\u2019d hear bad news on television as a kid and think, is this it? Has the time come?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/26\/briefing\/apocalypse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times The Apocalypse Goes Mainstream About 40 percent of American adults believe that we are living in the \u201cend times,\u201d according to a 2022 poll. Where did that idea come from? By\u00a0Lauren Jackson I grew up on a cul-de-sac in Arkansas, in a suburban house with a basketball hoop, a trampoline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14102,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions\/14102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}