The American Apocalypse

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Donald M

 

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March 29, 2014

 

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The end of times is not figurative nor symbolic, but in the spirit of American millennialism a very literal purge of the perceived ‘perverted’ and ‘subversive’ elements that so thoroughly populate Kushner’s Angels. The interrogation of progress, the catalyst of impending doom, roughly takes up four of the play’s five Acts scouting the heavens for collapse, but the fifth and the epilogue relapses into a hurried defense of progress, in spite of the overwhelming evidence stockpiled against it...
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As Matthew Wilson Smith notes in his acclaimed essay “Angels in America: A Progressive Apocalypse” the respective ideas of metamorphosis within the progressive and apocalyptic framework appear to be inherently incompatible. In the apocalyptic worldview, transformation is generally sudden and total: complete destruction and complete rebirth, … it is only when history comes to an end that liberation is truly possible; … ...
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