I agree with Dave -- and in answer to Michael's original question, would say that while there does seem to have been a small (small!) minority of people who gave up their regular lives to prep for Rapture, this became a big story more because of the media's willingness to fetishize it than anything else. Living in NYC, I saw the trucks with Rapture-related advertisements prowling the streets, but they all had out-of-state license plates. And I don't know a single person (including a few devout Christians) who took this seriously -- except as serious fun.
Sascha On May 30, 2011, at 9:14 AM, David Mandl <dma...@panix.com> wrote: > Hi Patrice-- > > I think you're giving these people more credit than they deserve. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
