Summary
Dan Carlin: The End Is Always Near
Apocalyptic Moments From Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Threats
The creator of the incredibly popular podcast "Hardcore History" brings us a look at apocalyptic moments in history in this unique book to help us think about the challenges of the future.
Do hard times create tougher people? Can the human race handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will technology ever reach its peak, or will it decline? No one knows the answers to these questions, but no one asks them in such an interesting way as Dan Carlin does.
In this book, Dan Carlin examines the questions and historical events that force us to think about a possibility that sounds almost incredible to us: that we may experience the fate of all previous eras. Will our world ever turn into a ruin to be excavated by archaeologists in the future? The questions are deeply philosophical, but at the same time they remind us of something from the Twilight Zone.
Carlin connects his famous storytelling skills with history and its oddities, and thus combines the past and the future in a fascinating way. At the same time, the questions it asks us involve the most important problem we can imagine - the survival of the human species. From the collapse of the Bronze Age to the challenges of the nuclear age, that question hangs over humanity like the sword of Damocles.
Inspired by a podcast, the book The End is Always Near will make you think hard about the past and about yourself. In this collection, Carlin tackles brand new stories that will captivate readers. Extremely idiosyncratic and full of knowledge, unusual and profound, this book deals with questions we rarely ask, but which make history incredibly relevant to our turbulent present.
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