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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2026
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I suppose this could make sense if you think about people worried about climate/ecosystem collapse, and the nuclear standoff before that, and maybe the rise of totalitarianism and mechanized warfare before that...
But that ignores the vast host of batshit doomsday prophets that were around long before and all throughout that part of history.
Also in that context it seems like millenarianism is specifically bad at actually doing anything about the harms it's worried about. Whether you want to curb fossil fuel usage or just get sinners to repent before it's too late, doomsday prophecy is actively bad at motivating anyone other than the prophet themselves.
rationalists are so big brained thonkers that they don't need to learn history, they can get it from the first principles, haven't you heard