note: Don't read if you haven't finished or is about to read The Hunger Games trilogy, a lot of spoilers follow.
Panem "was", "is" and maybe "will be" upon us.
"Was" because it happened in the past. I relate the hunger games to the Gladiator games where killing was seen as a form of entertainment. The value of a slave's life, a human, was next to nothing, either being killed by other humans or mauled by lions, tigers and other wild animals. We have the Coliseum ruins as a memorial to it.
"Is" because like Panem our current world is much like the districts and the capitol. Go to the provinces where the farmers till their soil day and night, to the fishing villages where people risks their lives every night to catch fish. Are these people enjoying their fruits? No! They live in utter poverty. They can't even prepare a decent meal for their own children. But look at the cities, the megapolis. Foods abound in wet market, grocery stores, convenience stores, restaurants - all you need is cash (the paper or the plastic kind) and you'll have a decent meal without breaking a sweat.
"Will be" because with all those nuclear weapons hidden, being made, will be made -we are inching minute by minute to midnight doomsday when all these countries that possess them either use them against one another, misuse them or release them by "accident".
The apocalypse in essence had happened, is happening and will happen, sooner than later.
Maybe we ourselves will put an end to our own existence.
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