2012

December 21st 2012 was meant to be the end of the world yet I am still here creating this blog post. I know that blogspot shows I posted this on the 21st of December around 5pm this isn't the case. In Australia it is currently 12pm on the 22nd of December 2012. The world did not end despite the misinterpretation of the Mayan Calendar and the belief in a prophecy by Nostradamus. People created a psychological landscape in which they believed the world would end. The Mayan Calendar merely ran out of space and why should we trust the prophecies of a man living a long time ago before all the advances we glory in today?

Many people believed the world would end on the 21st of December 2012 and in their pyschological landscapes such a belief flourished and people were literally taking bets on how the world would end. Ideas ranged from a reasonable possibility of a solar flare while there were those near impossible beliefs of a Zombie Apocalypse. You would think people would have learnt from the Y2K incident to not buy into the mass hysteria of an Apocalypse that might happen. That was 12 years ago and already our psychological landscapes have blocked out this occurrence and replaced it with the hysteria of the end of the world.

So as I look out the window in my home in Australia and write this post on the 22nd of December 2012 I urge people to remember this false apocalypse next time people buy into Nostradamus or the Mayans. They lived in an entirely different time and maybe if our world had not developed there may have been an apocalypse but now there is not. Also, with all our technology in space and around the world be sure to know that when the end is coming you will know because technology would spot the signs before us. As always, look towards a brighter future and don't dwell on what might have been. Especially if what might have been was an Apocalypse.