i.                       It’s like if a Margaret Atwood novel was stupid Maybe civilization is collapsing around us, but who can really know? When Rome fell, the people in the actual city felt every vibration, every tremor, but out on the periphery of the empire in the garrison towns and scattered villages, it would have been initially like nothing had changed. Maybe that’s where we are, except instead of no news from the emperor, it’s too much news from everywhere. There’s a signal, if we could find it and decode it, but it’s drowned in the noise.  So maybe it is happening right now, but whatever. Milf Island is on and I have Flamin’ Hot Doritos. ii.                     They stay on the air I think often about the TV in George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.  Most of the time that our small, heroic band of survivors are holed up in the attic of that mall, the TV is still broadcasting. Pundits and talking heads are giving advice and having arguments not all that different in tone (if n