The Last Days of Mankind

One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus's play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by methods of modern warfare while extolling the glory and ignoring the horror of an allegedly "defensive" war. This volume is the first to present a complete English translation of Kraus's towering work, filling a major gap in the availability of Viennese literature from the era of the War to End All Wars.

The Fall: Last Days of Gaia is a stunning 3D role-playing game set in a postmodern scenario that takes you to the year 2083. A global catastrophe almost wipes mankind from the face of the earth and you must survive in an inhospitable world. Violent gangs control society and club law is the only kind that counts.

Is mankind here to stay or are our days numbered? Will we fare better than our close and distant relatives such as Neanderthals and dinosaurs who ruled the earth before us? Is man at the beginning of his journey or fast approaching the end? Might that end come about within the next century? Last Days of Man is a scientific examination of the top 10 disasters that have the capacity to annihilate the human race and it s not just the usual threats from nuclear weapons, climate change, and meteorite impacts. There are a number of lesser-known but much more probable risks to humankind threats that humanity has created for itself. If more than 99.9% of all species that ever lived on earth no longer exist, are humans also at risk?

According to the early writings of the Shaiva tradition–still alive in India and dating back at least 6,000 years–the arbitrary ideologies and moralistic religions of modern society signal the last days of humanity heading toward destruction.