What Diogenesister said (at the top of the page).
I think that to recent (non-overlapping) generations, the idea that the World could End just doesn’t seem possible. I think it’s partly because there’s so many people on the planet now… it’s kinda hard to get rid of 8 billion of anything.
Not to mention that these days, the End-Time narratives in holy books sound more like bad drug trips than prophecies (Patmos Island in the First Century AD was used as an insane asylum… take that however you want.)
For some of my still-in relatives, the “New System” is their carrot (they’re getting old and sickly, it ain’t pretty)… Armageddon’s just the unpleasant but necessary layover to get there.