Apocalyptic means to pull back the veil to reveal what is hidden. It is designed to shock us. An apocalyptic event reframes reality in a radical manner for something new; we have got the old out of the way. Apocalyptic literature is for the sake of birth not death.
Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that. We cannot hold onto the old all the while declaring th…
