Today is December 21th 2012, the predicted end of world date. To be honest I think it's much hype. Perhaps end of something, end of the Mayan calender for one thing. End of some other things as well, maybe the end of well over half a decade, ramped up year by year blabber of the "2012 Mayan Apocalypse" - one can only hope. I sure hope the Mayans don't have another trick up their sleeve. Of course people will look on to the future to find a new big end of the world date to set their sights on. The last big one was Y2K in 2000, that one is about the only one in modern history that I suspect much credence could be lent to. The plausibility being that it would be a man made doomsday event. The thought of as a bunch of archaic 20th century computers ticking away on binary code, once they hit 2000, the machines don't know the difference between 2000 and 1900. The result could have been a disaster wrecking havoc on machines all around the world, shutting off power stations, crashing computer reliant machines, crashing the stock market and plummeting the world into a financial death dive. No communications, shipping halted, cash registers unable to function, currency useless and the public in a state of panic. Luckily none of these things happened, the remedy was found and disaster averted. The one aspect that terrified me as a child about Y2K was the remote possibility it could trigger the launch of nuclear missiles automatically with no human interaction, those machines too could have faltered as it was thought the programmers never anticipated making it 2000 hence the machine would reboot to 1900, perhaps programed to think a war has happened, power has gone out and to launch ICBMs (That sure as put everything back in 1900 at least if not the stone ages). That terrified me as a kid and I lost some sleep over it but like everything else with Y2K, it never happened thankfully. Thanks to forward thinking software engineers, computer programmers and any other computer wizards of the 1990's, we are still here. They must have made everything flow smoothly into the new millennium because none of the before mentioned events happened as everybody well knows. To this end they are the unsung heroes of the last doomsday date (If you see one, thank him or her as the case may be).
Well now if anything is going to change, some people have suggested a shift in human subconscious thinking towards greater enlightenment. That would be nice, I guess it's ideal. I certainly don't see the world changing over night nor mankind in all it's existence going "You know what, starting today I'd like to be enlightened." It would be interesting, maybe people should laugh more, add more humor to their lives. One possibility is for more optimistic thinkers, all too often I'm confronted with eternal pessimists. I can accept some pessimism as reality but to chronically resort to it and totally give up on the glass half full way of thinking is only ceding to being defeated in mind. To me the power of the mind is a strong asset, your not ever fully defeated in your endeavors unless your defeated in your mind.
If anything is bound to change from this day on, I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and say, please no more 2012 doom and gloom programs on the History Channel, Discovery, and Nat Geo. Well okay, the latter two have not been as bad but certain channels on TV have beat on the December 2012 drum pretty bad, that poor drum's head is beyond cracked, it's worn out, beat totally bashed through. Lets make a rock & roll analogy here. It's beyond the abuse Bonzo's drums took after a 10 minute onslaught of the song Moby Dick, it's more like the Who smashing their instruments in a fury all over the stage, alas save Keith Moon's poor drums! My hopes, we can stopping thinking so much about 2012 and the end and think more about 2013 + and hopefully a bright future, even though I know we all deal with our challenges, we shall overcome those. From this day on maybe people I know can stop saying "Well, but if the world ends in 2012.." Guess it helps to anticipate the plan B rather than plan A.
Ok, I'll hush up now as we still have some more time to go on December 21st. I realize the day is not yet over and there's an old saying "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." - There's another one that goes "It's not over 'till the fat lady sings." Well, where's the opera? I'm not hearing it.
In the Rocky Mountain time zone it's in the afternoon, maybe the key here is if the sun is rising over the dateline in the Pacific Ocean on the 22nd somewhere, then I suppose we are home free. Here's the clue, if the sun is rising in Japan right now or soon, that's the 22nd and the future, we are A-OK if people in the eastern Pacific region see the sunrise on the 22nd of December 2012.
I just have to remember, in North America, we have yet to reach nightfall for the 21st. While we sleep, we are most vulnerable to sloth surprise attack, slogging along at a stunning 2 MPH! Stumbling past the yard gnomes an through the flowerbed. They aim for our throats in the dead of night. Sleepy sleepy, nighty night and don't let the sloths bite.
Images used courtesy of Izsu and Superb wallpapers. Also Cosmos Magazine.
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