Who is the doomer? Dealing with an age of hopelessness

[midnight rambler]

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[Jewboo]

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[ziero0]

doom (n.)

Middle English doome, from Old English dom "a law, statute, decree; administration of justice, judgment; justice, equity, righteousness," from Proto-Germanic *domaz (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian dom, Old Norse domr, Old High German tuom "judgment, decree," Gothic doms "discernment, distinction"), perhaps from PIE root *dhe- "to set, place, put, do" (source also of Sanskrit dhaman- "law," Greek themis "law," Lithuanian domė "attention").

Originally in a neutral sense but sometimes also "a decision determining fate or fortune, irrevocable destiny." A book of laws in Old English was a dombec. Modern adverse sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" begins early 14c. and is general after c. 1600, from doomsday and the finality of the Christian Judgment. Crack of doom is the last Trump, the signal for the dissolution of all things.

President Trump, it seems, is Biblical. Otherwise the modern sense of 'doom' seems to come from the end of the middle ages (aka 'the dark age'). The end of reliance upon a noble class is connected to the present day sense of 'doom'. Those who are doomed would seem to be yearning for a return of nobility.