The Apocalypse, Dooms Day, the End of the world, the End of Days, and even the Rapture…
Good god, when will it end?
All these movies, television shows, books, even the History channel is prophesying the END of the WORLD, and I’m just not buying it.
They promised it in the 1940s, the 1950s, 1960s, the 1970s, 1984, the 1990s, and of course, the year 2000, 2001, and now again, 2012.
This is it!
This is what?
I’ve been around since the 1950s and remember well, the Bomb Scares, the Atomic Bomb scares, the Cold War, when we had our heads up our asses, and it scared the bejesus out of me. I was about 5 years old, heard the air raid siren, and ran down to the basement to hide under a blanket and yelling, “Cmon Mom! You’ll be killed!” while she, nonchalantly, continued doing the laundry.
By the 70s, I was like, ‘Ppfffft” so jaded, even though there were several nuke facility meltdowns, because, you know, I’m just not buying it anymore.
Even 9/11 didn’t throw me, because I knew that was coming. Well, I knew all about Osama and his clan of terrorists. Hell, terrorism has been around forever. They were skyjacking planes in the 70s.
And, I have lost all respect for The History Channel who obviously cares little for history with their programs featuring the "Antichrist," the Nostradamus prophesies, and God versus Satan. Their Doomsday programming apparently gets them ratings, but, OMG,what are they selling?
We are a country of complete nuts. When are we going to stop selling fear? And loathing? What if we just kept on living? Wouldn’t it be nice? Of course everybody dies, and yes, the planet will die someday too. Just not now….and when we are sitting around in the year 2525 in our Jetson carjets, won’t we be laughing at the crazy ‘television’ people from a couple of centuries ago. At least I will be, since, of course, I'm immortal.
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