Category: History
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There is a subtle but interesting pattern hiding in plain sight in modern culture. It appears in the kinds of stories we tell, the political language we use, the technologies we build, and the way we imagine the future. It also appears, when it’s interpreted through the right lens, in Strauss–Howe generational theory. I want…
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A Structural Reading of an Apocalyptic Text I’m not interested in the Book of Revelation as divine prophecy or a supernatural prediction of the end of the world. I’m interested in it as a text that keeps waking up. For nearly two thousand years, people have looked at Revelation and concluded that this moment —…