Sean Kim’s Reviews > The Second Coming > Status Update

*society

One hot take I have about the poem is that the second coming, the darkness of the rough beast that seems like a nightmare and a hell-bent violent version of Christ, I think such darkness is actually there to save and benefit society. When there's chaos and structures in society have collapsed, sometimes a firm, strong, and even morally wrong but ethically strong force is needed to right the ship and improve the bed.