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William Bernstein on The Delusions of Crowds | #346

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What's So Attractive About the End Times Narrative?

i traced the evolution of the end times narrative over the past 500 years. The current narrative, which is called millennial dispensationalism, starkes out as this very dry, dull theological doctrine in the hands of a couple of anglo irish academics more than a hundred years ago. And it's really dull. Is really not something that any one would want to listen to or read. It gets afted by ontrapiners, of evangelical obtrapiners and literary otraiers into this really, really lurid narrative that just sells books and sells copies and puts fannies into seats and pews. We are creatures that seek compelling narratives. While what more compelling, lorid

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