On one level, this is actually a quite original apocalyptic scenario. It argues that the world *already ended*, specifically in 2012, and that we are now inhabiting a different timeline. Or even that the world is *currently ending*, since Earth is falling through a black hole as we speak. Both scenarios explain why the world feels so strange, unfamiliar and out of joint. Indeed, it has done so ever since 2012, and it aint getting better, is it? Cough, cough, Donald Trump, cough cough, the COVID lockdowns...
On one level, this just paranoia or some such delusion. But on another, it´s obviously connected to the global situation the past 10 or 15 years. Suddenly, as if out of the blue, the entire world changed in completely unpredictable and often crazy ways (see "cough cough" above). People who for whatever reason reject political, economic or even ideological explanations might turn towards various convoluted conspiracy theories to explain this. I have to say, though, that these are the most creative I´ve heard so far!
The whole thing could be seen as just another apocalyptic cope, in some sense even stranger than the time-out-of-joint it tries to "explain"...
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