Traditionalism and Violent Eschatology

Traditionalism — Violent Eschatology

The concepts of apocalypse, millenarianism, and eschatology were of little interest to the neoliberals who presided over the last few decades of globalization. An apocalypse, derived from the Greek word for “unveiling,” reveals truths of Heaven that have been inaccessible to mortals. As societies across the world adopted consumer capitalism and liberal democracy it seemed the West had reached what Francis Fukuyama called “the end of history.” When the Berlin Wall fell, Fukuyama famously argued that free markets had proven to be…