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Every generation has its monster. Sometimes it's a literal monster - like the giant squid of 1872, the Soviet Union of 1952, or gluten in 2012. Sometimes it's metaphorical: taxes, teenagers, TikTok. But for the last two thousand years, humanity has loved nothing more than pointing at some poor soul and declaring, with enthusiasm bordering on cardio exercise: ""There! That one! That's the Antichrist!"" Nobody ever gets it right. The list of accused reads like history grabbed a dartboard: emperors, kings, queens, popes, sultans, bankers, rock stars, philosophers, that kid in math class who never blinked, and at least three people who simply had suspicious eyebrows. Every few decades, someone is certain they've cracked the prophetic code - only for the alleged Antichrist to die quietly of gout or retire to a cottage and take up gardening. This book does not set out to find the Antichrist. That job has been handled - poorly - by two millennia of panicked onlookers. Instead, we will study the myth itself, the way it mutates, spreads, electrifies the imagination, and reflects every fear a society can have. The Antichrist is a mirror we keep polishing, terrified of what we might see looking back.

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