The whole admiration of the 2012... thing must've got a whole lot of people intrigued about doomsdays if they managed to find another 150 of them!
So this could in essence be the last of my posts, and such a bummer... just when I got a full head of steam and my typing fingers ready, the world decides to go and end.
(it's about as official as you can get)
Uhh... no.
And here's why.
This whole fascination with the Mayan calendar has been floating around for quite some time now, enough time for a movie to feature it...
And then the guys over at Futurama had a go on how stupidly bizarre it was too, and unlike the writing at Family Guy, if something related to pop culture gets featured, it doesn't die immediately. This has happened so often it's been called the Family Guy Effect.
So why is it stupid to think something is going to happen? Well aside from the phenomenon being passed off as psuedoscience, it's all based on an ancient (and we all know if it's ancient, it's gonna be true!) calendar ending.
Umm... so what? We have a calendar in our kitchen that finishes on December 31st. So obviously that's when our kitchen becomes uninhabitable. By that logic we should flee to the shopping mall because the calendar store has calendars that go through until next year.
The thing that really gets me paranoid is when National Geographic shows programmes about 'preppers' and doomsday. And if you couldn't guess the name of the program from that, you need to watch more educational television. But really, NatGeo, I trusted you! Why you making me scared? I'm going to switch over to Discovery Channel now, even if it's a full week of nothing but sharks.
There was also a mini-held-breath moment nine days earlier, or what was known as 12/12/12 at 12:12:12pm. Nothing happened. I was working at Repco, randomly looked at my watch, it said 12:17, I said, "oh well", and went right back to stocking shelves with spray paint.
The funny thing about this is that it's just a calendar date. Technically, if the calendar had a different amount of months or days in it, 12/12/12 might have been something like 38/19/28; and with a 'boring' date like that I'm sure we wouldn't have given it a second thought. Didn't the same thing happen on the 6th of June, 6 years ago?
The long story short of this is, 12/12/12 didn't happen, and the end-of-the-2012 calendar thing wont happen either. But for those that want to mock the die-hard believers, just wait until this countdown finishes at 12:11am on the 22nd (NZ time) before the "I told you so"s, followed quickly by the "Now What?"s and the subsequent playings of these songs:
Britney Spears - Till the World Ends
Matchbox Twenty - How Far We've Come
Jay Sean - 2012 (It Ain't the End)
R.E.M. - It's the End of the World
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