2012: Overhyped?
I watched a few videos on Youtube a little earlier and the video you see below is a perfect example of what I think could be considered overhyping 2012 (I didn’t post a few others because of their tasteless nature)…
This video talks about droughts, famines, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, wars, etc,. … but haven’t these been around since the beginning of mankind?… We will freak out over armed conflicts today but glorify the bloody history of ancient empires like Greece and Rome in epic movies like “Gladiator” and “Troy”… they experienced droughts, famines, floods, (maybe not hurricanes or tsunamis because of geographic location), and they definitely threw enough spears at each other to constitute at least a few wars to the credit of each empire…
So I beg the question… what is so different? About the only difference that I can find is that we live in the “Digital Age” where information is readily available from practically any corner of the earth and easily over hyped… How “easily over hyped”?
Just throw a bunch of sensitive key words at a group of people and watch what happens… Need I remind anyone about “weapons of mass destruction” and “war on terrorism” as perfect examples of over hyping something that turned out to be more hot air than any balloon ever used to get off the ground?
How is it that societies without plumbing and spears for advanced weaponry forged global empires without fear but we today in a time of abundance in information, knowledge, technology, psychology, etc,. are being paralyzed by fear over something that in all reality only exists in our imaginative minds?
2012 another Y2K?
As I am beginning to compile information on 2012 and Mayan Prophecy… I can’t help but wonder how much of this is “legitimate” and how much is “Y2K”…
Anybody remember far back enough with me when “Y2K” was the popular buzzword and if a conversation got dull at a party all you had to do was drop your one line thought on Y2K and everybody would eagerly clamour to give theirs? Or God help you if you dropped “Y2K” into a “geek” or LAN party!!!
How many theories were circulating out there about Y2K? … How many times did I hear that we would be going back to “Ma and Pa Ingalls” days? And when Y2K rolled around… (drums please)… what happened?! Nothing…
Are we as a society simply over hyping the next big thing because we need a little excitement or drama?… We need another good “rescue topic” for a lame party? Drop “2012″ or “Mayan Prophecy” into certain circles now… not geek or LAN parties obviously (but don’t worry… they will catch on soon)… but more so into history buff and academic circles… watch the room explode with seemingly the most over qualified minds of the era on the topic of 2012!
If Mayan Prophecy is worth our attention… then what has it predicted previously that has come true? And if it hasn’t predicted anything else then on what basis has Mayan Prophecy merited so much attention?…
Just some thoughts and questions…
Ideas?
A few 2012 thoughts…
It seems that every 2012 blog, website, book, etc., that I find never focuses on just 2012. From the most tacky website to the professionally published book in Barnes & Noble… you will invariably come across a wide range of topics that I just don’t see how they really have anything to do with 2012 and Mayan Prophecy. Read any Mayan Prophecy material and see then how much of the other topics out there have anything at all to do with Mayan Prophecy. It just seems to me that everybody with a topic they love have found a buzzword that is gaining popularity with the general public…”2012″… and they are simply riding the coat tails of that to market their own angle or interest…
Here is a brief sampling of topics I have found attached to 2012:
- Cataclysm
- Dragons
- Nazca Lines
- Pole Shifts
- Global Pyramids
- Global Grids
- Evolution
- Unicorns
- Space Threats
- Carbon Dating
- Myths
- Doomsday Scenario’s
- Government Secret Projects
- and on and on and on…
Now, of course, some of the listed topics seem to have merit in being attached to 2012 and Mayan Prophecy… but seriously… Space Threats? Unicorns? Dragons?…
One thing that I am focused on achieving with “2012 Connection” is to weed out wild theory from substantial information… what are the filters or paradigms set for passing verdict on information? I haven’t set that yet… and I don’t know that I am qualified to set that… here is where a well researched community would be priceless!
Anyhow… anybody think that 2012 is just another Y2K?…
Purpose of 2012 Connection
After finding all kinds of resources on 2012, Mayan Prophecy, etc., on the internet, in Barnes & Noble, in Borders, hearsay from friends and associates… I have decided to create a blog that centralizes all this information into useful lists, links, updates, etc,. in hopes of fostering a community of sharing the information that we as individuals have.
I think that if those of us who find the topic of 2012 (and related fields of discussion) interesting and have done any kind of research and volunteer that information to a central community then it would benefit all of us and maybe even make an impact on the world…
I am not an a guru on this blogging stuff but I do like to write… so I hope that I will be able to figure out how to do the things I have read about in relation to building good online communities… like featuring user contribution for articles, having discussion boards, etc,.
If you have any ideas or information or theories, etc., that you would like to share… this is the place!
Through everybody’s participation this can be a very useful resource for the well researched and accidental reader of 2012…
