Dorian Lynskey On Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End Of The World

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  Five times 15.

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  Thanks, Jack.

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  Hello, everyone.

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  Lovely to see you.

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  So.

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  So, yeah, the subtitle, which Jack didn't mention,

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  which is fine, is the stories we tell about the end of the world.

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  And the reason I chose that is

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  because I wanted to reflect the fact that I'm talking about fiction novels and films and TV shows and video games and comic books and so on,

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  and all the different ways that we imagine the world will end.

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  But then there's also the stories that we tell the politicians tell activists,

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  scientists, even the ones that we.

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  That we tell ourselves.

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  And a lot of the time the reason why activists are telling them is because they want to.

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  They want to get across a message and they want to galvanize people.

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  And so I just wanted to talk about a couple of different sort of sections of the book where it's really two halves of the same story,

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  which is, how useful is fear?

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  Because people sometimes ask, well, why?

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  What is the point of these stories of the end?

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  And obviously entertainment is one of them, but I wonder, are they actually useful?

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