Across history, nearly every culture has carried within it a prophecy—an imagined ending. From flood myths to nuclear nightmares, humans have always looked to the horizon for signs of collapse. Why?
Psychologically, it’s tied to our unique cognitive wiring. Unlike any other species, we possess the ability to imagine abstract futures. This gift of foresight comes with a cost: anxiety, fatalism, and a deep yearning for transformation.
In The Ushering, this cultural obsession with apocalypse is flipped on its head. Instead of depicting the end as a collapse, the story offers something rarer: an ascension.
Because maybe, just maybe, what we call the end… is really the beginning.Filed under: Human Behavior, Inspiration, Behind the Story