For the ancients, the word apocalypse wasn’t a shorthand way of describing a multi-billion-dollar film and publishing industrial complex, but a Greek word meaning “uncovering” or “revealing.” When such a term is used to describe biblical works like Revelation or Daniel it isn’t an attempt to predict a gory or hellish future for everyone with whom we disagree about stuff none of us know for sure, but is instead an effort to describe an eerie vision of the future in order to change something concrete about the present.
Apocalypse is about burning away, quite literally, all the bullshit that keeps us needlessly separated from one another as a way of revealing how connected we all are (even if, ironically, we have to stay at least six feet apart in the meantime). And yes, I used the word bullshit intentionally (making the editor cringe), because it is one of the few words that aptly communicates whatever motivated so many of our president’s sycophants, enablers and apologists (both in Washington and on my social media feed) to ignore the social contract we all share in favor of insipidly following the chants of “hoax” from a man who famously intoned that he is “a very stable genius” who has “the best words.”
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