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Last night, I watched Waterland on IFC. It was a very good movie, very much character driven rather than plot driven, with stunning photography. Well worth a look if you get a chance to see it.

One piece of the movie struck a chord with me and I've been thinking about it all morning. One of the students in the narrator's history class questions the need to learn history because, as he says, "the world is all going to end." They never really elaborate on how or why he feels the end of the world is imminent, but it struck me as a common fear. I remember growing up afraid of the Soviet Union and the possibility of a global nuclear war destroying life as we know it. Today, its global warming that is the impending doom of the planet. It makes me wonder if we have a need to feel like the end is imminent. When one threat diminishes, we very quickly find a new threat to take its place. I find it a curious that, as a society, we seem to be so fearful of the future. I can't help but wonder why that is the case...
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