And What Rough Beast?

It came with a bang rather than the expected whimper. Darker days then ever before, filled with greed and wastefulness followed by all the regrets a world’s worth of hearts could hold.

Some said he was the Antichrist, with a big A. But he himself objected, claiming to merely be a man.

He wasn’t the son of some mythical devil, a manifestation of all that was wrong with the world. He was just one antichrist amongst many. It was pure luck that he ended up at the forefront of them all.

A leader amongst men. A loud voice letting others express their free will to do as they wished in their heart of hearts. Giving them the excuses they told themselves as they destroyed the environment and wallowed in ill-gotten gains.

At the end of it all, as the world burned in the fires of climate change, and the heated oceans flooded as the melted ice released million year old viruses and bacteria, and nearly all life was extinguished, from his underground bunker he could only laugh in his madness. Tears streamed from his eyes. "I don’t understand why this happened! How could any of this have been my fault? I was just a podcaster!"

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