Prophecy and catastrophism produce the same emotion and the same result. Neither produces change that lasts.
Apocalyptic framing is effective for about six weeks. Then it exhausts the audience. This is well documented in climate communication research: fear appeals raise attention sharply and then produce avoidance, fatalism or denial, particularly when they are not accompanied by a believable account of what to do. People do not act on terror. They act on a combination of concern and agency, and when agency is absent, concern converts to numbness.
This has direct consequences for how the material of this book must be handled. It would be easy — and dishonest — to use the figure of Kalki as a threat: change or the correction comes for you. That framing would generate anxiety, moral superiority in those who feel prepared, and paralysis in everyone else.
There is also a subtler failure to avoid, and it is common in spiritual literature: the substitution of anticipation for responsibility. A person can spend an entire life waiting for an arrival — of an avatar, a collapse, a shift, an age — and the waiting itself becomes the activity. It feels like readiness. It functions as delay.