And then nothing at all

“It also made me think of what life is basically like now: a calm foreground with an inferno on the horizon. And it struck me that this would be a thing that would happen at the end of the world. People would point their phones at the fire in the sky, and they would send photos to their friends in other places. ‘This is what the apocalypse looks like here,’ they would say. ‘How is it where you are?’ There would be a great storm of content and engagement, and then there would be nothing at all.”

Pictures of the world on fire won’t shock us for much longer, by Mark O'Connell, about the 2020 bush fires in Australia. The Guardian, 13 January 2020