Very Weberian question. Likely, the focus on eschatology & on bare survival are both caused by disintegration of familiar ways of life.
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Maybe look at Walzer's *The Revolution of the Saints* on the beginning of modernity, to better understand its end?
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2 way street.
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Both apocalypticism and survivalism are caused by decreasing assabiyah.
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For a pervasive sense that the power is cut, control systems are not responding, and the landing gear will not deploy, yes.
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this seems like a thread in Neal Stephenson novels
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for me survivalism, like sports, first satisfies vestigial bodily needs: no longer correlate w/ success but still needed for happiness.
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so my attraction to survivalism and minimalism has nothing to do with expecting the end of the world, but I may be a minority.
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