I am not much of a dweller on the end of the world and prefer to focus on the those eternally good elements of existence, however, I found this interesting for some reason.
From the Hermetica, written around the first or second century:
“In their weariness the people of that time will find the world nothing to wonder at or to worship…People will find it oppressive and scorn it. They will not cherish this entire world…They will prefer shadows to light, and they will find death more expedient than life…The reverent will be thought mad, the irreverent wise; the lunatic will be thought brave, and the scoundrel will be taken for a decent person…Soul and all teachings about soul as I revealed them to you will be considered not simply laughable but even illusory…Nothing holy, nothing reverent nor worthy of heaven or heavenly beings will be heard of or believed in the mind.”
“How mournful when the gods withdraw from mankind!… Every divine voice will grow mute in enforced silence. The fruits of the earth will rot; the soil will no more be fertile; and the very air will droop in gloomy lethargy.”
“Such will be the old age of the world: irreverence, disorder, and disregard for everything good.”
Pagan Philosopher 
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