Week 2 Discussion Topics

Stories speculating on the perfect society are a common subject, especially in speculative and science fiction. The term utopia was coined in More's "Utopia" (1516) where the hero discovers an island culture that operates in perfect harmony. Subsequent authors, have written about utopias, dystopias,

Cults espousing cataclysmic events and the apocalypse as being holy have been around for centuries. A fundamental difference between some of the doomsday cults we’ve heard about in recent times and The Cult of Armageddon is how widespread and popular it became in this futuristic society. Why would

The Cult of Armageddon worships cataclysmic wars from the past when destruction was rained upon the world. In Chapter 17, the cult meets at ground zero of the Great Annihilation and we see them worshipping a bomb image, chanting it will happen again. Based on recent events, reference to past use