Apo-calypso. In its root sense is a dis/closure, an opening that may come as an explosion—for what has been kept sealed under pressure opens with a bang. In Revelation, the seals break open to vision the hideous layers of slaughter, deprivation, the trade of luxury (oil and wine) against need (barley and wheat), drought, flood, fire, war. US folk have been buffered and blinded by the relative affluence of our majority: as our middle class security falls, so do the seals on our sight. The seals coming pried open in Occupy Wall Street have revealed the everyday atrocities of Wall Street’s occupation of the earth. I love a scrawled sign at Liberty Square: “Real Eyes Realize Real Lies.” That’s the true apocalypse—and it counters the man[sic]-made apocalypse of hypercapitalism. But spread the word: this is not just any capitalism, not your mom’s and pop’s variety, but a recent global metastasis of the economy.

The above excerpt comes from a blog post by perhaps my favorite theologian, Catherine Keller. Read her blog post entitled, Occupy Wall Street: On a Theological Pre-Occupation here.

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