chp3: remove irrelevant tail on role of imagination, perspective

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@@ -316,31 +316,3 @@ John steels his audience for suffering, and reassures those who are already
 suffering that their troubles are part of a cosmic context. And with his
 treatment of the end times, John inspires his audience with hope that their
 sufferings will not be wasted.
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-\[TODO: see if next three paras are relevant.\]
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-John's apocalyptic imagination uses mythological language to reveal the world of
-appearances for what it really is. The ideology of Empire is a pretender God,
-and the suffering of the martyrs is in fact God's way of conquering evil. John
-may have created a crisis for a people that didn't see one, a people that needed
-'waking up'. So, while catastrophism imagines that all humanity approaches the
-catastrophe more or less from the same perspective, and thus works to kill
-politics, John's apocalyptic imagination imagines precisely the opposite: he
-enlivens political criticism and active resistance to dominant structures by
-identifying how people relate unequally to them.
-
-So people today, when they equate apocalypticism with catastrophism, are cutting
-out most of the apocalyptic imagination and distorting its message. This is now
-new. This is a very traditional move which functions to shut down radical
-dissent against dominant structures.
-
-Meanwhile, those who have read the Apocalypse 'from below' tend to emphasise how
-it has a visionary interpretation of the tribulations of this world, and a
-visionary expectation of this world being transformed, and use this vision to
-motivate movements for transformational social change.
-
-The apocalyptic form is therefore not the reason that green rhetoric is failing.
-As explored in chapter 1, green rhetoric is failing because it is failing to
-diagnose the root causes of the problem, present a credible route to a credible
-solution, and address an audience that could be persuaded to make a difference.
-Were rhetors to solve these problems, they could use apocalyptic effectively.