The End of the World or The Boy Who Cried Apocolypse

The End of the World or The Boy Who Cried Apocolypse

   Welp since it is after midnight when I am writing this we officially have only one week left on earth. Unless you have been under a rock, like Patrick Star, you should know that the world is going to end on one week on December 21, 2012. This of course is based on absolutely no scientific evidence at all, only on one man's opinion of a calendar that is thousands of years old. Never mind that most people during that time period were afraid of the sun, they have accurately predicted the end of the modern world that all of our billions of dollars in scientific technology has not seen coming. Applause for them, and applause that they have gotten people to believe it.

     There are probably people that believe it for real right? I mean people believed Harold Camping, the guy that said the end of the world was last november...right? People believe this stuff. there is probably a man in Times Square right now holding a sign that says "The End is Nigh", which is actually a very complicated sign for the youtube generation. The sign should read, "oh shit we be dyin soon" if he wanted people to understand it.

     But does anyone else think that this whole "End of the World" scenario is a bit played? I mean we have had three possible speculations in the past year alone. I dunno about you, but I am tired of laughing at people dumb enough to believe this stuff, it has really just turned sad.

     These people who predict the end of the world really haven't learned much. I mean if we look at classical literature we see that that no one ever prospered from crying wolf. That is a story we learn as children, and it obviously hasn't translated well to these prophets of doomsday. What is going to happen when the end of the world actually is nigh? Will we believe the right people when the time comes? Or will we as a culture just say "we've heard this one."?