Impending disaster makes theoretical explanation humanity’s most urgent immediate interest

Evidence

One might simply respond that, in a social situation so jinxed that it is drifting towards disaster without there being any apparent alternative, the greatest possible interestliterally the immediate interest of everyonewould lie in finding an adequate explanation for this in a theory. To the same extent that humanity has become concretistic, it is waiting for a saving word. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2394

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• XREF: connects to: Traumatic crises immediately spike public appetite for prophecy and prophecy-related searches — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 772