It's the End Of the World As We Know It.

So, what shall we watch to distract us from the Fall of the Republic? A list of suggestions. Vol. 1.

“If you don’t believe that I’m going for good/Then you can count the days that I’m gone/And chop up the chairs for firewood.”

— Elvis Costello, “Coal Train Robberies.”

What do we see when we close our eyes, our personal “Meditations In An Emergency”? The best answer I can think of right now is, “Not the present.”

The Philosophy of Distraction, known amongs…