On January 25th, 2025 a hand on a clock moved one-second closer to midnight—but this clock doesn’t tell time—it assesses the overall likelihood at any moment of mankind’s imminent extinction. Quite appropriately it’s called The Doomsday Clock.
However, Doomsday is not just the name of a clock—or a DC comic book character—it’s a recurring epoch expressed in world mythologies, folklores, and religions. Regularly reenacted in cultural traditions, most viscerally in the fireworks that accompany the celebration of a New Year.
We think of Doomsday as a prophecy of a worst case global scenario on planet Earth. Such prophecies have been offered for millennia—thankfully, they’ve all been falsified. Yet despite these failed predictions the collective human obsession with doomsday endures.
Independent researcher Stuart Talbott analyzes the historical evidence of comparative mythologists such as David Talbott, Ev Cochrane and Dwardu Cardona who deem Doomsday not as hypothetical fantasy or deranged fear—but instinctively implanted into mankind’s collective memory.
