The End of the Beginning of the World
The idea of the end of time confronts us with the inherent fragility of human existence, just as the history of the universe has a beginning and a possible end; our lives are marked by the certainty of its end, facing the idea of the end is a concern as ancient as human history itself.
The concept of the collapse of civilizations, economic systems, or even the planet confronts us with human resistance to imagining a radical change in the established order.
The feeling that the end of the world is near is an obsession of the current period, it is common to all historical periods of civilizations; in which a particular socioeconomic system has entered into irreversible decline.
A faithful representation of the current world are the various films