The Danger of the Law of Millenarianism

The myth of Staggle Lee is that once the Panthers are defeated, gangster rap replaces conscious rap. That myth recurs basically until BLM. It does seem as though- Well I think that I know it's in the crunch time. The reality is we are not looking at the imminent collapse of Western civilization into a zombie apocalypse. We're looking at a situation in which quite a lot of our freedom might be constrained. Our standard of living will continue to slowly erode, but mostly we'll be having to suffer the historic existential indignity and transiting of having to watch hundreds of thousands of people die.