Ragnarok and Societal "Collapse"

Fenris the Wolf Eats Odin

My twitter timeline is loaded with prophets of doom. Doom prophesy is a perennially popular way for people to spend their free time.

Financial doom forecasters are relatively popular on youtube. Some are so deluded by the digits of financial instruments that they think the dollar is the sun, so when the dollar "dies" the United States will die. I'm not going to bother counting up the currencies and financial crises of the USA--there have been lots. The financial "system" is a bunch of business deals strung together by debt and bankers.

Climate doom forecasters also make frequent appearances on my twitter timeline as either a subject of ridicule, or as part of an earnest plea to save the planet. The climate doom story is actually a version of the financial doom story. A system run amok will come to an abrupt, unmanaged end, and kill vast swaths of people and also kill the environment.

Guilt and punishment seem to imbue both stories. The "debt death" financial crisis story is the most absurd and myth laden. The "banker" magic Jews will kill us all. A handful of Jew bankers: Rothschilds Soroses or whoever will pew pew the world into oblivion as a sort of civilization level foreclosure. How mind fucked are people to wring their hands over this story?

Saturn's the most interesting mythological characters in many ways. Fenris, maybe is time. The gnashing tooth of time. He's a son of Loki. The weights and measures of Saturn are all lies and Fenris is bound by nonsense--a chain made of:

• The sound of a cat's footfall
• The beard of a woman
• The roots of a mountain
• The sinews of a bear
• The breath of a fish
• The spittle of a bird

But in the end, of course, he breaks free and noms Odin.