Y2K...12.

So apparently, here we go again.

December 21, 2012:

The date marks the end of a 5,126-year cycle on the Long Count calendar developed by the Maya, the ancient civilization known for its advanced understanding of astronomy and for the great cities it left behind in Mexico and Central America.

Sigh.

This has led to growing number of books, websites, and general whack-jobbedness (yes it is a word) that the end is once again, very near (even a web page with handy countdown clock!). Doomsday part deux... or who knows what part. It seems like the signs have all aligned countless times marking the unmistakable end of our civilization.

I would just love to know what the hell these people who proclaim doomsday are doing with their lives. Going to work? Dropping off their stuff at the cleaners? Scrubbing the kitchen sink? Hell, if I really believed the world was ending in 4 years (or three and change at this point) I would be on a frickin' beach somewhere, maxing out my credit cards and thumbing my nose at any sort of rules... Not setting up websites, or writing books...

I have to wonder what these people possibly hope to achieve? If they are right, not only will no one be around for them to bask in their success- they themselves will be doing no basking. And if they're wrong...? Let's just say they might fall off a few Xmas card lists. They might have hard time getting that second book published- the one about the conspiracy theory regarding the poison gas that emits from albino hamsters, causing subordination in humans and will eventually lead to the Great Albino Hamster Empire.

Some in the Maya scholastic community brush off these folks. "The trendy doomsday people...should be treated for what they are: under-informed opportunists and alarmists who will move onto other things in 2013," said John Major Jenkins, whose books include "Galactic Alignment" and who describes himself as a self-taught independent Maya scholar.

And there are those, who are more or less giving these doomsday "prophets" what they desire, that are outraged. "There's going to be a whole generation of people who, when they think of the Maya, think of 2012, and to me that's just criminal," said David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Easy David... down boy.

And call me uneducated- do it, I flippin' dare you- but when I think the of the Maya, I think of actress Maya Rudolph. Or the Mayan Indians... or the Cleveland Indians... wait I just lost my train of thought...

2012 or bust? Or 2012 and bust. Putting on my Nostradamus hat: Perhaps these Maya characters were thinking something along the lines of 2012 will be when we stopped doing business as usual. When peace is something that is actually achievable rather than a foolish notion. When harmony is what is encouraged, rather than hate. But I don't want to step the Doomsday-sayers' shoes... especially when they're selling those shoes online with a fancy "2012" already printed on them.

quotes taken from cnn.com.