Why Apocalypse,Now?

Abstract

“So, why involve ourselves in apocalypse? Perhaps the answer must be that we are already involved in apocalypse, involved in such many-layered and multivalent complexities of image and reality, of judgment and hope, and of illusion and disillusionment that we had best meditate upon apocalypse now and again. The proliferating smorgasbord of end-of-the-world scenarios (dispensational fundamentalists, contemporary interpreters of Nostradamus and the Mayan Calendar Stone, the UFO people, and Our Lady of Fatima) warns of the perils of this last decade of the millennium and points to a pervasive atmosphere. The phenomenal rate of major historical change marking the beginning of this decade will mingle in unpredictable ways with the varieties of apocalypticism.”