Interview 4

J.R. P.
AGE: 29
OCCUPATION: BARTENDER
EDUCATION LEVEL: BACHELORS DEGREE

KM: How do you envision the end of the world?
JR: I don’t think the world is going to end. I think the human species will end. Planet earth is going to shake us off like a bunch of fleas, and start again like it has many times.
KM: The human species will end, but start again?
JR: Not necessarily the human species will start again, but something will start again. Planet earth shook off the dinosaurs and they didn’t do anything to fuck up the ecosystem.
KM: Will this earth shaking be a conscious thing for the humans?
JR: It’s just a metaphor, the earth will just shake us off like fleas. The earth will decide it is done with us and be like, fucking douche bags, shake us off and start again.
KM: Shake us off like fleas is a metaphor for what exactly? Will it be a nuclear holocaust, a pandemic we can’t fight? Everything that anyone fears right now coming to fruition?
JR: Sure.What I am saying is, humanity will end and the planet will not. The planet will be here no matter what. Human beings are going to destroy themselves, and then the planet earth will shake us off like fleas.
KM: How exactly will the human beings destroy themselves?
JR: I guarantee there’s a pandemic and a series of other things. The pandemic will lead to a world war. Some crazy terrorist will unleash a pandemic that will lead all of these countries to fight an invisible ghost and nuke everything, but the rich will survive and others will not.
KM: All of this will be instigated then by a single person unleashing some sort of virus to kill us all?
JR: The best way I can put this is remember at the beginning of World War I when that one dude killed that Arch Duke Ferdinand and then everybody jumped in? One dude is going to fuck it up for everybody.