
End of Days? Sure, why the hell not?
Armageddon has been looming since, well, Beginning of Days. Though, doesn’t our particular doomsday scenario feel different? Like there might actually be something to it.
And who doesn’t want to live until the very last bastion falls? The sentiment runs like this: “When I go, the whole goddamned world’s gonna go with me.” And that’s why Armageddon has been due to arrive any day now — since the beginning of time. No one wants to think that when he dies the world will keep spinning without him.
We’ve reached a distinct threshold, as a culture, with our particular timeline’s mythology. As James Hilman has said, our culture doesn’t have many stories to choose from that would help us through the process of disintegration. All we’re left holding is what our Judeo-Christian forefathers have handed down to us: The Book of Revelation. Not the most soothing of reads. As the writer Chris Kelly puts it: “American Evangelicals love Revelation, because it doesn’t make a lick of sense and then everything explodes.”
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