Beneath the one-liner is a gentle lesson in perspective: “today” is not a universal, fixed point. Because the Earth is always turning, different places are always living in different calendar moments, and Australia often serves as a convenient symbol of “the future” for readers in North America. From that angle, the end-of-the-world dread begins to resemble a language trick—an absolute claim smuggled into a relative concept—so the fear loosens its grip. [...]
