Millennialism—the conviction that a savior will arrive to punish evil and refashion the world into a paradise for the faithful. Powerlessness begets rage; rage seeks a scapegoat; and, when facts prove too inconvenient or the situation too complicated to parse, fantasy bridges the gap between what is real and
Millennialism—the conviction that a savior will arrive to punish evil and refashion the world into a paradise for the faithful.
Powerlessness begets rage; rage seeks a scapegoat; and, when facts prove too inconvenient or the situation too complicated to parse, fantasy bridges the gap between what is real and what is imaginary.
—Norman Cohn