Interview 2

KRISTEN H.
AGE 23
OCCUPATION: BARTENDER
EDUCATION LEVEL: BACHELORS DEGREE

KM: How do envision the end of the world?
KH: People are going to die before the world ends. We’ll die off. I don’t really have a particular way in which people will die. It’s kind of a misnomer to say the world will end after humans, the world will keep going on.
KM: So you think humans will disappear before the actual physical earth is gone?
KH: I hope its kind of fun and interesting how humans will disappear but it probably won’t be.
KM: What then would be one of those interesting ways in which humanity will die off?
KH: I’m interested in pandemics, nuclear holocaust would be fun too. I hope there’s another species that takes us over, like dinosaurs coming back and eating us all. That’d be interesting.
KM: So on the pandemic end of things your probably really excited about the swine flu.
KH: I don’t think that will necessarily be the one. I wouldn’t say I’m excited about the swine flu, but I think diseases are interesting. I hope though that it’s a virus that we develop ourselves and it comes back to bite us in the ass. With all of the shit people have done we deserve to kill ourselves off by our own inventions, but I don’t know if we’re really smart enough to do that.
KM: As it sounds, you’re most interested in seeing humanity have to deal with their own ‘inventions’ biting them in the ass.
KH: There would be a kind of poetic justice and irony in that. Having all of these discoveries and abilities that make us think we’re better than we really are, and we’re still the same shitty people we were hundreds of years ago. The things that we think make us human would actually be the things that kill us.
KM: Lets go back to the nuclear holocaust that you would find fun. How do see that starting, what do you think would happen to instigate a nuclear war?
KH: I think it will start as an international relations mistake. Big mistake, enough to piss off the wrong person. It would have to be something that would happen suddenly. I like to think that there are enough people in the world that wouldn’t let something like that happen if it were known about. It would be a big social faux pas of sorts. Not necessarily everyone would have to die either though. An apocalypse doesn’t have to mean everyone is gone, it just means a sort of catastrophic change. I also think iphones will spread disease.
KM: How exactly will they do that?
KH: There will be some sort of harmonic created in the phone that will degrade the brain. Something unexpected. We’re trying to fight the swine flu and iphones are destroying people [laughs].