The End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel Fine....

With all due respect to REM....

2012... the end of the Mayan calendar... the end of the world... a bad movie with John Cusack.

Okay we need to talk about this a little. First off, the Mayan calendar is a circular calendar which means that it goes around and starts over. What is so hard to figure this out about? When it resets, when you get to the end it just starts over. Are we all so obsessed with a linear mental image that we can’t accept that things don’t have to end for them to start something new? Wait don’t answer that question, I don’t want to know the answer.

That is the explanation that makes sense when you think about it. But thats not the real reason why nothing is going to happen in 2012, well aside from an election in the US which won’t change anything, and if you are so worried about it now that so and so will win and you have to use the term “Well I am leaving the country if X wins” do us all a favor and just leave now. If you are so damn short sighted and such a reactionary that you can’t deal with who ever is in office, really you don’t have to live here. There are a lot of other very good countries that could use a new militia member I am sure. Or better yet, work for the candidate you like or start a new party so we can have more than two. Oh right about the Mayan calendar, sorry I got distracted there. Okay think about this, here is a civilization that has some very high end math skills and they are creating a calendar for the people.

Remember human nature never changes, so you know there had to be a guy in a stone cubicle with a tablet and a chisel doing long division for years to figure this out. At night he goes home and gets to hear about how the Johnson’s next door are doing so much better, why Albert just got his heart ripped out in a sacrificial ceremony last Wednesday, and why doesn’t he get promoted like that? His wife always reminds him that her father always said he would not amount to anything and look here he is still alive, the slacker. So each day he goes to work, gets pebbles kicked into his face, and fantasizes about the end of the world, and dammit thats it he is not going to carry that stupid two anymore. So you know what 2012 is a good year for the end of world. Besides what did the Mayan’s care, they aren’t around anymore. \

So if you are running around thinking the world is going to end in 2012 there are a few things to remember... 1) take your pills, stop cutting them in half. B) The Mayan way of thinking is that its probably more of a spiritual shift than anything else, and the calendar starts again the next day. So you are still going to have to pick up your room mister AND monitor your credit report. iii) If it does end why the heck are you worried about it in the first place... YOU. WILL. BE. DEAD. move on nothing to see here, next number please.

You know that reminds me, what is the big deal with all the “horror” films? What is so damn scary about getting killed... tortured sure, that would suck, or being made to listen to drum corp for days on end... now THAT is a horror film. But just getting your head cut off by your local pituitary gland problem child who has a Gretzky fetish, big deal. So you die and either go to heaven, everything goes black, or you get another life.... okay sure Hell would kind of blow, but really is a little teenage sex going to send you to tell? Oh sorry I got distracted again...

Back to 2012, and besides there is other major factor as to why the world is NOT going to end in 2012. The movie the Hobbit won’t have been finished yet, and I will be damned if we all die before we get to see Smaug on the big screen.

‘Nuff Said.....

Set TEM to stun and full speed ahead.