Good morning and please enjoy this clip from The Lion King. Or maybe save it til the end of the email, when it will feel relevant. Either way, make sure you watch, both to remember the amazing songwriting in this movie, and to absorb the timeless details that will surely make you uncomfortable.

All you need is one Alex Jones tweet to know that the preppers are alive and well, but shit is getting out of control. Beyond the hoarder mom phenom and the dehydrated food sales boom, the aesthetic of impending doom has seeped into our clothes, our mason jars, and now onto the screen. Clayton Purdom from A/V club points out that doomsday culture is very much preoccupying Hollywood, and it’s equal parts appealing and scary. The end of the world comes in that new movie “A Quiet Place,” but John Krasinski* and Emily Blut take it in stride, looking fly in their family’s bucolic little homestead. While they do get tortured in the apocalypse, isn’t their sense of off-grid sufficiency also kind of comforting? Similar themes emerge in “The Survivalist” and “It Comes At Night,” and on TV, “The Walking Dead”, “Z Nation”, and “Jericho” all carve out their own little self-reliant communities. Fortnite even counts as prepper canon, I’m told. And we needn’t look far to find the source of the fantasy. But, please tell me, what happens when you are finally prepared?

*Suddenly back in action– missed you, Jim.

Oh, and it’s not just you in your living room dreaming about escape. Apparently there’s a whole squad of superrich Americans who are setting up shop in New Zealand, just in case. Specifically, it’s a bunch of Silicon Valley types who have commissioned bunkers to install underground. They’re there (or at least, their property is there) thanks to an “Investor Visa,” which gives you the green light to stay if you buy a house of a certain value. There’s also the “Investor Plus Visa,” (really?) for those who “invest” around $7mm in New Zealand property over three years. And, surprise, applications for all of those visas have ballooned since Trump was elected.

Due to truly overwhelming demand, New Zealand has now banned foreigners from buying homes there at all. In turn– get ready– Peter Thiel applied for citizenship, which he was granted in a whopping 12 days, after which he bought multiple properties and at least one safe room. But we could have guessed he was kind of a tinfoil-hatter, right?

Thinking, in light of all this, that the polo could become the new hoodie. Unless… is that not what you meant?