The countdown is on. If the Mayans and Nostradamus are correct, when the countdown’s over in December 2012, the world will end.
In truth, it probably won’t. The Mayan calendar just ends in that month, and Nostradamus only predicted a big change in the world. To me, that doesn’t seem like a very scary future. Big changes may be good. Hopefully it’s a big change for the better. Maybe nuclear fusion will be achieved rather than nuclear war. Maybe we will find life on another planet rather than them finding us. As for the Mayans, they probably just figured it was stupid to make a calendar so far into the future.
There are plenty of crazy theories out there that we ignore, but for some reason, we seem to love 2012 doomsday ones. I’ll just make a calendar, base it in astronomical movements, and pick a random date to end it. Does that mean that the world will end on that day? I think it would be hard to know if I picked a day 3000 years in the future.
Honestly, we shouldn’t worry too much about if the 2012 prophecies will come true. It’s going to happen whether we want it to or not. That said, why worry? Let’s party! If we’re all going to be dead in two years anyway, who cares what we do? ACT, SAT, I’m not going to do them. I don’t need to, because the world’s going to end in 2 years. Screw college, right?
Well, no, because just like Y2K, 2012 will likely come and go without incidence. Who are these ancient people to know what will happen? Unless they had some sort of divine knowledge, they are wrong. Therefore we must worry about what is more likely to happen: life as usual.
SEAN McQUADE
