It seems like humanity has a collective, doubtlessly evolutionarily based, obsession with the ensuing apocalypse and end of the world as we know it. After perusing much of the literature regarding the Mayan prophecy (2012, ect.) and being stunned by the sheer volume of books on that subject in the book store, I’ve come to the conclusion, however hackneyed, that humanity, whether we know it or not, is poised on the edge of certain doom and oblivion. Whether or not the Mayan prophecy is correct is a whole other bag of beans, so to speak, but from my own pessimistic outlook… well, call me crazy (or overly optimistic in a twisted way…) but it does seem likely that at some point humanity will be forced to collectively and cathartically pay dues for the extraordinary damage we have done to our world. Right now I’m picturing some crazy hippy rapture in which people that bike or drive hybrids or subscribe to the vegan diet get to go to a Whole Foods Heaven and eat nothing but tofu crackers for the rest of eternity, but the aforestated idea is in jest.
Or maybe the zombie apocalypse will be the way the world ends, not with a bang or even a whisper but with a moan gurgling out of a rotten esophagus… Or, perhaps more chilling, maybe we’re all zombies but convinced of our own humanity, the true humans being the Neanderthals…
i'm highly disturbed by the idea of eating tofu crackers for the rest of eternity, so i guess it's a good thing that i don't fit into that category. then again, maybe i should join that category in order to avoid that whole rotten esophagus scenario.
ReplyDeletepretty much we should become moles, thusly evading both scenarios...
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