Apocalypse

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani distinguishes two uses of the word apocalypse. He first rejects the apocalypses he calls "phantasmatic": faced with global warming, he calls for democratic and planned measures rather than a narrative of breakdown or collapse1. In his view, these announced catastrophes, whether the heatwave or covid, serve to conceal the only apocalypse against which people must unite, namely war2. In 2023 he states that he, who lived through the Cold War and the Cuban missile crisis, has never seen the world so close to apocalypse3. In 2024 he specifies that in the nuclear age the decision between war and peace engages all of humanity, and that this is where it would truly be "too late"4. He also takes up the biblical figure of the beast of the Apocalypse, supposedly defeated yet still able to hold power, while stating that he gives it no mystical meaning5.

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Season 10 · 7 Jul 2022#16 Michel Clouscard: "There are no holidays in the concept!" - Dominique Pagani

17:53The human share of warming must be regulated democratically and in a planned way, not in the fantasmatic form of apocalypse.
58:18The fantasmatic apocalypses used to distract us hide the only real apocalypse against which one must unite: war.

Series · 12 Mar 2019Dominique Pagani ▷II Pablo Servigne

1:07:34Warning signs repeat the signs of the apocalypse in Scripture.
2:42:51The collapsologist narrative repeats the Flood and Sodom: the excrement of the masses calls for purification.