Nahui Ollin — the Aztec fifth sun prophecy — spikes 6,000% on Wikipedia with no clear source. Fight Club crosses $100M in rerelease. Children's top two Roblox games are Grow a Garden and Survive the Apocalypse. Exit 8 posts a 2,803% ROI on micro-budget liminal horror.

Today's brief: Mircea Eliade's eternal return explains why we're all Googling apocalypse mythology right now — and Denis Villeneuve's "dirty sci-fi" approach to Arrival gives us the scene where choosing contact over safety is the whole point.

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