I'm watching a program on The Discovery Channel right now titled "Bad Universe". The name of this specific episode is "Asteroid Apocolypse" and the guy just said "The cosmic clock is ticking!" (I won't even bring up the disturbing fact he had a smile on his face when he said it.)
Five minutes before starting this blog I was watching the movie, "Speed". I then said to my daughter, "I wonder if something's on television dealing with some type of cataclysmic Earth thing...it IS Sunday after all." So I scrolled around and found this show. It's a new show...2010; it might be a rerun, but I never saw it before...or should I say I've never seen this one before...as I've seen plenty of the same shows dealing with the same scenarios.
Same doom, different channel.
And it's only going to get worse. See that opening line up there starting off this blog? You know what that is?
No...not days left before the Olympics come to London.
No...not days until the Super Bowl.
No...not days left until the last soldier comes home from Afghanistan.
Not even how many shopping days are left until Christmas. In fact, we won't even have to WORRY about how many days left until Christmas...in 2012. Yep, you guessed right...it's the "Mayan Calendar Clock of Doom!"
Oh, they might have given it a more fancy name - but that's what it is alright. It's a countdown clock to human demise. Our collective demise. Nice handy gadget there - I wonder how many people have input "21 December 2012" into their cell phones to remind themselves to cancel all their appointments for the rest of eternity.
Do you have any clue how many "End of Days" parties are probably booked in swanky hotels all over the world? I wonder if credit cards are charged before or after? I don't know about you -- but that little tidbit of information would significantly effect MY party for sure.
I also wonder what these dedicated Doomsday "propheteers" have up their collective sleeves for us as far as television programming goes. Did you ever stop to envision how December 2012's line-up will look? I have. Seriously...I have. I already know what it looks like NOW...geez...I can just see our happy pre-holiday shows being replaced by the "Twelve Days of Armageddon" or something. Hmmm...just think with me...
"Frosty the Snow, Man, Is About Fifty Feet Deep and This Is Florida!"
"Rudolph's Shiny New Year that He Better Have Celebrated on the 20th of December 'Cause He Won't Be Celebrating it AFTER!"
"A Charlie Brown Impact Crater Christmas"
"How the Grimch Reaper Stole Christmas"
"The Year Without a Santa Claus"
Well, okay, that last one's title was already sad and pathetic enough as it was, so it needed no changing. The rest of them I mentioned...eh...not so funny...but neither is being bombarded every waking moment by some show or another that my life -- and the life of everyone else on the planet, is in some cosmic collision course with Mr. Death.
Sure, we're all going to die someday, but the morbid factor these shows take is just a bit...too icky. Planets lining up - we're all gonna die. Asteroids - we're all gonna die. Giant solar flares - we're all gonna die. The Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, and Edgar Cayce all said, "You're all gonna die!"
While this is all fun and games and serious hyped-up laugh riots the way it is, millions of kids are toddling off to bed being constantly reminded there won't be any goodies under the tree two years from now. "You just go off to bed now, Timmy, mommy's watching another 'Doom and Gloom' show...I'll be right there to tuck you in during the commercial."
My daughter, who is in the graduating class of 2013, doesn't know what she wants to major in when she goes to college...because, according to the History, National Geographic, Discovery and A&E channels, she won't even make it to high school graduation! Why bother thinking four years out when you're not going to be thinking anything after two?
Anyway, all you television programmers out there...just something to think about...
Ugh. Nothing like a little doom and gloom from those peppy Mayans to make life worth living! My advice to anyone taking this a bit too seriously is to remember that the Mayans, as good as they were at some things, weren't all that spiffy at keeping their own civilization going, so the possibility exists that they might possibly maybe not have been the best predictors of things, otherwise they might have avoided their own dissolution.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha! My sentiments exactly.
ReplyDeleteOh, and why is it "Mr." Death - what about "Mrs." Death, or "Ms." Death? Really, with all those hormonal monthly swings, I would think a woman would be better at it, no? Madam Morte?
Fun post!
;-)
00dozo - Hey, I've been married to a man, trust me...they suck the life right outta you. ;)
ReplyDeleteSully - The Mayans probably said it just to piss everyone off. It's been countless years ago when they were in the height of their power. Who knows, maybe telling someone "Everyone's gonna die in 2012" was the equivalent of saying "Your mama" when I went to school. Probably just something someone says to start a fight. Years later it took on a whole new meaning. Stupid scientists. ;)
ReplyDeleteOkay, if the Mayans are so smart, then why aren't they in charge of the world? In fact, what have they done lately?
ReplyDeleteI think things are going to be fine in 2012.
Actually, that's not entirely true. What I really mean is that I don't think things are going to suck much more in 2012 than they do now.
A little known fact about the Mayans: They invented bacon!
ReplyDeleteOkay, so I made that up...but that would be pretty odd if they really did.
Oh, God help me...I'm off to Google bacon now.