I think you dance around a point that has a lot to do with it, and that's selfishness. If you really truly believe the world will end in your lifetime, or shortly after, then global warming doesn't matter, pollution doesn't matter, providing education or social security for the next generation doesn't matter, etc. So that means all the resources & sacrifices required for those things are no longer needed and we can continue to live carelessly & as we please without having to care or think about it. That's certainly common on the political right in the US, and the apocalyptic beliefs of their religious members dovetail with the outright greedy members who just don't care about a future as long as they get theirs now.
Is that what wingnuts think of Keynesian spending -- that borrowing at the bottom of the business cycle and paying down debt at the top, in a fashion that's empirically demonstrated to work, is somehow the same as Republican Party Secretary of the Interior James Watt saying "I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns".
Yeah, the hilarious bit to me is the "I believe in the literal interpretation... of the KJV" style failure to even bother considering that the concept "end of the world" might have meant something different to the Maya than it does to a modern American.
You'd think that the fact that the world that's ending is the Fourth World would be a hint.
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That's certainly common on the political right in the US, and the apocalyptic beliefs of their religious members dovetail with the outright greedy members who just don't care about a future as long as they get theirs now.
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Thanks, good to know!
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Must be true if the prime minister says so! ;)
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You'd think that the fact that the world that's ending is the Fourth World would be a hint.
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What a way with words! Just funning!
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