Every failing society manifests a strong desire for quick redemption often expressed in a wish for a savior; the one who is to come.
The need is so deeply wired into the human consciousness that movie makers sometimes employ deus ex machina to satisfy it
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It also produced the Mahdi phenomenon is West African Islam.
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“I’m your God and master. There is no other God but Ali Solih”
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This stands to reason.
As Nietzsche avers, “the frog which has puffed up itself too long will burst; the wind comes out”
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