What do you think of this hypothesis for the welcoming the apocalypse?

I haven’t totally hashed this out, so bear with me. In this post-post-modern world, it seems that humans have come to welcome the idea of impending doom. The source doesn’t even seem to matter… plague, climate change, the rapture… anything to, not necessarily kill us all, but to dramatically shift our way of life. My thinking is that society has slid itself into a mechanized, factory and lab driven state… We can’t seem to get anywhere without using power of some kind, and can’t imagine life without our mass produced stuff pacification. This in combination with this being a generation that grew up without any specific fear of nuclear annihilation that was suddenly rocked out of its cradle by the ominous terrorism (that may have been little threat to us) but was a real eye opener to the state of the world eye opener. It seems like perhaps somewhere in our unconscious we know something is wrong… perhaps that there is a facade that we can’t abandon because it is supported by the corporate powers that be, that our skeptical generation just can’t accept rejection. I think this leads us all to accept that a major atrocity would be “ideal” if it brings about a new way of living for those that remain viable solution. Thoughts?