Bryan W. Alaspa 1The end of the world
November 10th 2009 02:43
If you want to believe Hollywood (and why the hell would you?) then the end of the world is coming very soon. If you believe the ad campaigns for what looks like the most ridiculous big budget movie made since “Battefield Earth” the end of the world is supposed to come one December 21, 2012. Now, because nothing is truly original in Hollywood, this is what some people believe the Mayans, an ancient race that faded out centuries ago, did when they stopped producing their calendar. It’s all involving a lot of strange math and ancient religions and I cannot possibly explain it properly.
Of course, there are many people who have been looking for Doomsday for a long time. When you look around, you kind of have to wonder. Sure, there are those who say that Global Warming isn’t happening or, worse yet, that it is but there’s just nothing we can do about it. So, the ice caps melt, the continents flood and animals die out by the millions, but hey, as long as they can keep drilling for oil, we’re all good, right?
Just look at this past year. Sure, this is generally a political blog, but sometimes you just have to take a step back and throw up your hands in wonder. We started the year with hope and then went through a year where you had to wonder if people were undergoing some kind of mass hysteria. Suddenly very frightened people (and conservatives are VERY frightened people) were running around on TV pulling their hair out and seeing communists coming out of the woodwork. Yes, brother was rising against brother.
We also started the year off with a new and more dangerous and scary plague. It started off as something called Swine Flu. Then, the people who produce pork for the world decided that calling it that gave pigs, and their meat, a bad name. These days everyone wants to call it H1N1. Whatever you call it, it now seems like everyone has it. The problem is that the entire thing has lead to more mass hysteria. You can’t touch anyone or anything and you need to stand in line for a vaccine that some people insist no one should take anyway or you could end up with an even worse reaction. I just know a guy who used to blog with me for an online magazine, Derek Torres, died of the thing a few weeks back.
We are fighting amongst ourselves. We are fleeing an invisible thing that you can only see with a microscope. We are locking ourselves up in little rooms and dousing our hands with enough chemicals to burn off our fingerprints. The world itself seems to be having an allergic reaction to our presence and wants to throw us off.
I am not saying that 2012 has merit. If I had to choose a doomsday prophet, I always go with Nostradamus. He predicted the end of the world a millennium or two from now. That’s the great thing about the world. If you don’t like how it ends by reading one thing, you can always read another somewhere else.
Of course, there are many people who have been looking for Doomsday for a long time. When you look around, you kind of have to wonder. Sure, there are those who say that Global Warming isn’t happening or, worse yet, that it is but there’s just nothing we can do about it. So, the ice caps melt, the continents flood and animals die out by the millions, but hey, as long as they can keep drilling for oil, we’re all good, right?
Just look at this past year. Sure, this is generally a political blog, but sometimes you just have to take a step back and throw up your hands in wonder. We started the year with hope and then went through a year where you had to wonder if people were undergoing some kind of mass hysteria. Suddenly very frightened people (and conservatives are VERY frightened people) were running around on TV pulling their hair out and seeing communists coming out of the woodwork. Yes, brother was rising against brother.
We also started the year off with a new and more dangerous and scary plague. It started off as something called Swine Flu. Then, the people who produce pork for the world decided that calling it that gave pigs, and their meat, a bad name. These days everyone wants to call it H1N1. Whatever you call it, it now seems like everyone has it. The problem is that the entire thing has lead to more mass hysteria. You can’t touch anyone or anything and you need to stand in line for a vaccine that some people insist no one should take anyway or you could end up with an even worse reaction. I just know a guy who used to blog with me for an online magazine, Derek Torres, died of the thing a few weeks back.
We are fighting amongst ourselves. We are fleeing an invisible thing that you can only see with a microscope. We are locking ourselves up in little rooms and dousing our hands with enough chemicals to burn off our fingerprints. The world itself seems to be having an allergic reaction to our presence and wants to throw us off.
I am not saying that 2012 has merit. If I had to choose a doomsday prophet, I always go with Nostradamus. He predicted the end of the world a millennium or two from now. That’s the great thing about the world. If you don’t like how it ends by reading one thing, you can always read another somewhere else.
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