The End is Always Near
Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
by Dan Carlin
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“Recorded this amazingly prescient conversation w the one and only Dan Carlin of @HardcoreHistory in late 2019, just months before #COVID swept the planet. His book The End Is Always Near is phenomenal, as are his thoughts on legacy media and what has been coming next for decades | This Dan Carlin book on times when it felt like the world was coming to an end is extremely good. Was written last year but has a great chapter on pandemics.”
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in History and Nonfiction.
The creator of the wildly popular awardwinning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself Will human Technology, or capabilities ever peak or regress No on...
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“Recorded this amazingly prescient conversation w the one and only Dan Carlin of @HardcoreHistory in late 2019, just months before #COVID swept the planet. His book The End Is Always Near is phenomenal, as are his thoughts on legacy media and what has been coming next for decades | This Dan Carlin book on times when it felt like the world was coming to an end is extremely good. Was written last year but has a great chapter on pandemics.”
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