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Millennialism? I don’t think I’ve ever seen this mentioned before, can you explain?
Also called Millenarianism, it refers to the belief that a major change/end of an age/apocalypse is inbound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism
A lot of folks felt this way when the year 1999 rolled around and the "new millennium" began. For some it only got worse after September 11th 2001.
According to Wikipedia, Millenarianism has been around for a long time, and it sounds like the Christian "rapture" is a good example. Your post seems to imply it's a recent thing (ie. 21st century), but maybe I'm misinterpreting what you're trying to say?
It's not a recent thing but there was a pretty serious resurgence of it around waitforit the turn of the millennia back in 1999/2000, with a followup in 2012 when we all thought the Mayan calendar was going to run out for some reason. My observation is that these events had a deeper impact on world thinking than I realized at the time.
I know a lot of people have that perception, but it doesn't necessarily make it true. Do you know of any studies that have looked into this?