Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
2/ Critics in both societies recognize the danger. Israelis accuse the religious-nationalist right of messianism; Iranian dissidents contest rule justified by the Hidden Imam’s absence. Each ruling order uses the other to promote its own false apocalypticism.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 14 Jul 2026
@JMGreerWriter @unherd An interesting inversion suggests itself. The proliferation of apocalypticism may not signal an excess of apocalypse but a shortage of it. When genuine unveiling (apocalypsis) is eclipsed, vernacular, end-times simulacra rush in to fill the void. A thread on that distinction. ↓
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