No one has predicted the end of the world in a while.

Cause it ended in 2012, remember?
Remember? Before the fucking fever dream reality we entered?
- Before the flattening. Ah, what a wonderful time that was.
- We need to find in ourselves the permeability to pass through a great invisible filter that separates the past and the future of humanity. We are collectively at the kind of moment that only happens once for a species.

If by "a while" you mean 1 month, then sure. There were tons of conspiracy theorists saying that the world was going to end on April 8th due to the solar eclipse.
- They were going to fire up the LHC to open a dimension, which can only happen when the moon is casting a shadow 6000 km away. Then aliens... or something.

The religious groups still do, just less loudly.
- Religious fanatics more like it. I remember when some guy in Russia declared himself Jesus and started a cult

It's not a shocking attention grabber anymore. Most people are well aware that the world is in a bad spot. Some idiots still argue about why, but most of us know why. We're in the end times. It's not biblical and no great battle will be taking place between good and evil. It's happening slowly, and increasingly hotter. The end is no longer nigh, it's here. I used to hope that we'd be better, and put in my part of the work. Now I still try, but I no longer have hope for humanity as a whole.
- So how long until the end is over? If the end is now, when does it seem like the actual end?

Do you mean correctly? If not, there have been several predictions this month.
There was a lot of talk relating the eclipse and Israel to the end times, and then last week there was this:

OP: "No one has predicted the end of the world in a while" Lemmy: "It's the end times, the end times have come!"
- Prediction? Bro, we're chronicling

We're big on subscription services now, can't sell subscriptions if the world is going to end.

Well the virus was a hoax. (do I need a /s?)
- do I need a /s?
  Umm, after that shit show, yes lol
- Don't underestimate the scale of human stupidity. Most definitely need a /s.

We're already riding it it I reckon. Should be like a deep breath out, but I think we'll eventually recover.
- Hah, I agree. No need for the nutters to predict it when civilization is dangling its toes off the precipice. You can see it on the horizon. Global instability, wars, anthropogenic climate change. They’re holding their breath like the rest of us.

I don't really think that the author of this book believes the world will "end" this soon but anyways. This is a post apocalyptic dystopia that sets it's scene in Moscow 2033:

You don't have to when you have the data for the end of the species, we know the rock we are on will still be here just we won't.
- The human species will not end, we are way to many people for that. Even if 99,9% of people die, the remaining 8 000 000 people are more then enough to allow for stable populations even if those 8 000 000 are spread all over the globe in smaller communities.
  
  assuming society collapses before nuclear war.

I think it’s mostly because we are in a bad state already. Things don’t feel like they’re building up for it to pop, it feels like more like a slow decline.

We've realized it's not going to be a sudden apocalypse, but a slow one
- The concentration of thinking the world is gonna end has diffused evenly across the population now.