I don’t often worry about the end of the world. Well, okay, maybe I do — now that I think about it, I’m a bit of an apocalypse prepper, with an impressive stash of canned goods, several “don’t die in the woods” thermal tarps, and more than a few completely useless hand-crank radios. So I’ll clarify: I don’t worry about the end of the world all the time. These days, I worry more that we’re the victims of an ongoing, elaborate Matrix-style hoax.
Readers of a certain age might remember a show from the early Aughts called “Punk’d,” starring a wildly enthusiastic and baby-faced Ashton Kutcher. In episodes of Punk’d — essentially a Candid Camera for the MTV generation — Kutcher would prank various celebrities using hidden cameras, gleefully convincing a stressed-out Justin Timberlake that his estate was being seized by the IRS or fooling a traumatized Hugh Jackman into believing that he’d just accidentally burned a house to the ground.
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