Wow. I have been hearing of this 2012 thing for the last decade or so (actually longer but the closer it gets the worse it gets) and as I suspected would happen -- it's the latest fuel for the deluded and paranoid. After 2012 I wonder what the "next big thing" for conspiracy theorists will be. I guess I better crack open my Prophecies of Nostradamus to find out. ;-)
Seriously, what is up with these people? Why do they NEED to have something to be frightened of? What, is Global Climate Change not sudden enough for them? >:-0
I think it's that 'Liberal Hocus Pocus Climate Change' is stuff that humans created and therefore humans need to fix, and that seems wrong to them.
They need something that big and that serious to be determined by what Baldrick in Blackadder calls the Big Pink Pixie in the Sky--so it's out of their hands, predestined, God's judgment, etc. In other words, they are only comfortable being victims.
Plus there's the appeal of controlled knowledge; if it's all in a book, or a pyramid code, or ancient scrolls, then they can bask in the security of having penetrated a mystery, of having it all be set in advance so there's nothing you can do about it, and of being insiders knowing what other people don't and the sense of superiority that folks like that get from that situation.
What bothers me most is all the ads. I have a special degree of scorn and anger for people who profit from disaster, the people who buy up lumber, plywood, and plastic sheeting before a hurricane and then sell it afterwards at a markup. But the people selling "2012 Approved" building services, 2012 survival kits, etc. are profiting from peoples' fear of something that isn't even real, like selling EPA*-approved tinfoil hats to ward off the Grays' mindpower or Special Protective Pants that keep aliens from anal-probing you ("money-back guarantee if aliens probe you!") They're shysters profiting from fear and stupidity, and they disgust me, whereas I just feel kind of sorry for the people they prey on...
*Extraterrestrial Protection Authority--in small print, on the bottom/back...
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Date: 2009-11-19 08:20 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-11-19 05:29 pm (UTC)They need something that big and that serious to be determined by what Baldrick in Blackadder calls the Big Pink Pixie in the Sky--so it's out of their hands, predestined, God's judgment, etc. In other words, they are only comfortable being victims.
Plus there's the appeal of controlled knowledge; if it's all in a book, or a pyramid code, or ancient scrolls, then they can bask in the security of having penetrated a mystery, of having it all be set in advance so there's nothing you can do about it, and of being insiders knowing what other people don't and the sense of superiority that folks like that get from that situation.
What bothers me most is all the ads. I have a special degree of scorn and anger for people who profit from disaster, the people who buy up lumber, plywood, and plastic sheeting before a hurricane and then sell it afterwards at a markup. But the people selling "2012 Approved" building services, 2012 survival kits, etc. are profiting from peoples' fear of something that isn't even real, like selling EPA*-approved tinfoil hats to ward off the Grays' mindpower or Special Protective Pants that keep aliens from anal-probing you ("money-back guarantee if aliens probe you!") They're shysters profiting from fear and stupidity, and they disgust me, whereas I just feel kind of sorry for the people they prey on...
*Extraterrestrial Protection Authority--in small print, on the bottom/back...