Hello people. In this blog I'll talk about the end of the Mayan calender, more specifically how it relates to our current society.
One thing few people realise is that the Mayans didn't have the same sort of calender that we do. Their calender is cyclical, and it tracks days, months, years, and longer periods of times. One of those longer periods is known as a Baktun. This day represents the conclusion of the so called 13th Baktun, and the beginning of the 14th. I am not an expert on the Mayans, so I hardly know the significance of the date, other than that the Mayans stopped predicting specific events on this date. This hardly implies the end of the world, and for the record I do not personally believe that anything horrible enough to destroy the world will, or even can, happen in the near future.
The problem is how society chooses to deal with this day. Every day for the past few months I've heard a people pronouncing, "I don't think the world will end!" and then everyone gets into a discussion about it. And nopony ever says they think the world will end. It's like people just coming up to you and announcing, "I am not a Nazi!". Everyone knows that, because no normal person is. In fact I'd like to say "I DO think the world will end to-day!", just to see what kind of reaction people will get. They've probably never heard anyone say that before.
Additionally, on all the sites I go on, and then in real life, I was flooded with "LOL the world didn't end I knew those stupid savages were wrong!" and crap like that. If the world were going to end, it wouldn't instantly happen at midnight, it wouldn't be magic. Also there are 24 different midnights around the world.
So I guess I'll leave you with this question to ponder: What is up with mankind's obsession with finding dates that the world might end?
