We are living in the end times again. Code-cracking and story-telling are big bidness, as Molly Ivins might have said.
Seems like only yes2K the end was really, truly, nearly at hand but here we are poised to greet the next late great planet earth date in 2012. The Mayan long count calender seems to be the ringleader behind the 2012 culprits but one big fat overlooked fact is that the Mayan calendar restarts again. The Mayan end date of 21 December 2012 is no different in concept than the Gregorian calendar end date of 31 December 2012. 2013 calendars are already coming off the presses somewhere in a low-wages community and the Mayans left instructions on how to continue using their calendar system after 21 December 2012.
The Mayan's 2012 astronomical projections are not scientifically disseminated on the public's behalf. We get a NatGeo looks at, the History Channel investigates and Sci-fy explores the Mayans and 2012. All unresolved speculation. Bernaysism dictates that all tripe for public consumption shall be served with music, commercial breaks and whenever possible, live re-enactments and computer models. God forbid PBS air a Royal Astronomical Society lecture on 2012 alignments - someone other than the royally anointed might catch wind of what's going on up there in the heavens.
There's little doubt that catastrophe will hit planet earth and even less doubt that folks with fantastic amounts of wealth have made arrangements to survive. Surely some inner court scribe has written a how-to on modifying a castle's dungeon playroom to meet survivalist benchmarks. Those of us without castle are instructed by court jesters on how to duck and cover or duct-tape and cover, depending on the attack type.
This end times has a new flavor - aliens. Good ones and bad ones of course; fighting for causes here, up there and in other times and dimensions. Just like the angels and demons of old only better and smarter. One man, Zechariah Sitchin, has managed to kick off an entire subculture of spiritual gurus preaching aliens incoming. Sitchin issued a translation of a portion of the Sumerian tablets which boils down to this: The Annunaki are an alien race from the planet Nibiru which orbits the sun every 3600 years. The Annunaki genetically manipulated homo erectus for the purpose of creating slaves to mine gold. They are the gods who set up the divine right to rule system so as to maintain ties to humanity. Sitchin's scholarship has been called into question and recently Kerry Cassidy made the passing remark on-air that she had it on good authority that some of Sitchin's work was channeled. Channeling is like hearing the voice of god or his angels except that it is aliens speaking. Best case scenario, Sitchen heard directly from an Annunaki and a debatable translation ensued.
As the tide of prosperity recedes and Americans respond to the call to sacrifice and swallow pride, let it not be said we weren't offered a little comfort for the way down, eh? Nothing like imagining it will all be over soon and the good guys win.
Seems like only yes2K the end was really, truly, nearly at hand but here we are poised to greet the next late great planet earth date in 2012. The Mayan long count calender seems to be the ringleader behind the 2012 culprits but one big fat overlooked fact is that the Mayan calendar restarts again. The Mayan end date of 21 December 2012 is no different in concept than the Gregorian calendar end date of 31 December 2012. 2013 calendars are already coming off the presses somewhere in a low-wages community and the Mayans left instructions on how to continue using their calendar system after 21 December 2012.
The Mayan's 2012 astronomical projections are not scientifically disseminated on the public's behalf. We get a NatGeo looks at, the History Channel investigates and Sci-fy explores the Mayans and 2012. All unresolved speculation. Bernaysism dictates that all tripe for public consumption shall be served with music, commercial breaks and whenever possible, live re-enactments and computer models. God forbid PBS air a Royal Astronomical Society lecture on 2012 alignments - someone other than the royally anointed might catch wind of what's going on up there in the heavens.
There's little doubt that catastrophe will hit planet earth and even less doubt that folks with fantastic amounts of wealth have made arrangements to survive. Surely some inner court scribe has written a how-to on modifying a castle's dungeon playroom to meet survivalist benchmarks. Those of us without castle are instructed by court jesters on how to duck and cover or duct-tape and cover, depending on the attack type.
This end times has a new flavor - aliens. Good ones and bad ones of course; fighting for causes here, up there and in other times and dimensions. Just like the angels and demons of old only better and smarter. One man, Zechariah Sitchin, has managed to kick off an entire subculture of spiritual gurus preaching aliens incoming. Sitchin issued a translation of a portion of the Sumerian tablets which boils down to this: The Annunaki are an alien race from the planet Nibiru which orbits the sun every 3600 years. The Annunaki genetically manipulated homo erectus for the purpose of creating slaves to mine gold. They are the gods who set up the divine right to rule system so as to maintain ties to humanity. Sitchin's scholarship has been called into question and recently Kerry Cassidy made the passing remark on-air that she had it on good authority that some of Sitchin's work was channeled. Channeling is like hearing the voice of god or his angels except that it is aliens speaking. Best case scenario, Sitchen heard directly from an Annunaki and a debatable translation ensued.
As the tide of prosperity recedes and Americans respond to the call to sacrifice and swallow pride, let it not be said we weren't offered a little comfort for the way down, eh? Nothing like imagining it will all be over soon and the good guys win.
