text: A nation's Intelligence Agency released a 140 page report detailing the lack of food and water for the planet's growing population, the inevitability of climate change to keep elevating dangerous weather conditions, and the destined collapse of the current monetary system. The whole nation was already full of unhappy people, a generation that had been fed the lie that if they worked hard they would eventually be prosperous and happy, were unemployed or held dead-end jobs where they were constrained, bored, underpaid and unappreciated. They were furious at being mislead. A generation of baby-boomers before them had stolen all of the prosperity from the nation and left a dying planet behind as their inheritance. The nation’s news-media grew increasingly cynical, morbid and depressing every day. Networks were purely out to make money and the dying nation, which felt helpless to help itself, ate up these stories and wallowed in its unhappiness. As a result those with mental disorders such as antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy and narcissistic personality disorder, began to believe that they were in fact part of the majority, as people had forgotten long ago that TV was not a true representation of reality. Such individuals became so convinced of their normalcy that they never sought out the mental counseling they so desperately needed, and as their self-assurance grew so did their boldness. A few started openly killing innocents, and once made famous by the greed of the media, more joined in. Soon even innocent children were not safe from the crossfire. With every disaster that befell the nation its people, scared and delusional, gave up one civil liberty after another until the freedom the nation once held proudly over the heads of the rest of the world was nothing more than a distant memory. Its citizens grew divided between the five stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance as though each stage were in fact an ideology to live by. Only a small percentage of the population had made it to the final stage and the deniers were so desperate to believe that everything would be OK that they turned their back completely on science and reason, the two things that human beings prided themselves on the most. The desperate actively ignored the evidence that came to light more and more every day, and lashed out at those who sought to end their ignorance. These people controlled vital aspects of the government, and so the nation was locked in a terrible stand still, completely unable to deal with the current problems and imminent dangers of the future. Only one solution seemed to remain; revolution. A total revision of government and civilization. But revolution was never to happen, too much of the nation had become convinced that they were completely helpless to influence the world, and reverted to total depression, complete apathy or a mix of the two. Each time an uprising started it was never able to gain enough momentum to stop the government from quelling it, through military and police action, and more powerfully through clever manipulation of the press and propaganda. People came to fear conflict more than anything, especially amongst themselves and so they created societal restrictions on which words they could say and which situations they could show in movies and on TV. In this stifling environment people became unable to think for themselves, and creativity and originality were snuffed out. Suicides, murders and sickness grew. Some began openly hoping for the end of their world. Nature began lashing out in its death throes as the misery of money continued to strangle it. Floods, droughts, blizzards, and terrible storms wreaked havoc across the planet. Wars over resources broke out around the globe, and finally the government took total control of the nation through military and police supervision. Each and every citizen was now a ward of the state, but even with strict laws in place limiting the production of more children the population had already grown too large to sustain. Soon governments around the world began to consider something once thought to be unthinkable-nuclear war. All it took was one missile, and all pandemonium broke out. No one can remember who made the first move, but it hardly mattered once a nuclear winter, an event which scientists had been warning about for decades, consumed the planet. The access to food and water, already scarce, became virtually non-existent and the starving population bottlenecked. The humans, plants and animals that managed to survive were plagued with genetic mutations and disease. Extinctions on a massive scale ravaged the land and sea. Eventually only a small niche of organic life remained, breeding and evolving over many thousands of years to create a new era. Although some mutated form of the human genome survived, the human race is never again at the top of the food chain. All information that humans had gathered and analyzed over the centuries was lost forever, for you see, the human race had been so distracted by war and money that they had never mastered space travel. When the sun eventually went supernova, any existence of life on the planet Earth and possibly in the entire known universe was completely eliminated. Doomed to revert to the stardust which had originally allowed for its creation. The end. This is my first time writing anything other than a research paper really, so I'm curious as to how other people view the style, and what you all generally think.