Yes, between climate change and societal upheaval, it might feel like we’re spiraling toward the end times—but who’s to say we can’t dive into the devastation dick-first?
Before renowned physicist Stephen Hawking shuffled off this mortal coil in 2018, he predicted the world would end within the next thousand years, as sinister developments like the rise of artificial intelligence, climate change, alien civilizations, human aggression and even the Cheeto-in-Chief, Donald Trump, could serve to wipe the planet from the face of existence. It is his forecast of the Orange One that’s most telling. In a 2016 interview with the BBC, Hawking laid it all on the table, warning that “Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink… [and] will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children.”
Looking at today’s landscape, Hawking’s words feel eerily prescient. Trump continues to advocate for the revival of coal and other outdated energy sources, even as climate concerns mount. Meanwhile, Bill Gates recently stated that artificial intelligence could render most jobs obsolete, leaving only three sectors relatively untouched—and chances are they’re not in a field you’re working in. And that’s assuming that an asteroid doesn’t collide with Earth, causing an extinction-level event. To put it poetically, we seem to be royally fucked.
“Life sucks right now and it’s okay to spend time coming instead of coming undone. Life is better the closer you are to your most recent orgasm.”
Dr. Jordan Soper
In fact, getting fucked might be one of the few sustainable resources we have to get us through the beginning of the devastation. “Life sucks right now and it’s okay to spend time coming instead of coming undone,” Dr. Jordan Soper, licensed psychologist and certified sex therapist, tells HUSTLERMagazine.com. “Life is better the closer you are to your most recent orgasm.”
