Addicted to the Apocalypse

We are in love with the apocalypse. Doomsday thinking justifies anything. If Armageddon lies just beyond the horizon, then all measures are worthwhile in staving it off. Armageddon simplifies the complex. It makes all decisions clear. Judeo-Christian moral qualms are minimized in the face of an implacable enemy bent on bringing hell down to earth. There’s something attractive about all of this. Left adrift, without a mission, Americans find windmills to fight and dub themselves knights in that battle. And they find excitement in that battle. In an age when nearly nobody has served in the military against an actual existential foe, too
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