With the Dec 21, 2012 Mayan “end of the world”, end of the long count calendar coming up at the end of this week, what are your thoughts on this? Have you made any changes or done anything as a result of this particular “event”?
We all know that Y2K was a non-event, nothing happened, but that didn’t stop people from being afraid of the potential problems that were predicted. I believe that this will also turn out to be a non-event, but I will say that in all honesty, that was in the back of my mind when I was going off grid 5 years ago, that is not the reason why I went off grid, it was something I had always wanted to do, for myself, not because of any doom and gloom reasons, BUT with that being said, I did want to be fully established, living off grid by the time this date rolled around, not because I fear some major catastrophe that may or may not come, but because of the way the people in highly populated city centers may act.
People are unpredictable, in small numbers they are not much of a threat, but get people en-mass, and things can change, one or two radicals in a large group of otherwise normal and calm people can cause a chain reaction of bad behavior, personally I wanted to be well away from the potentially problematic masses. I suspect there are going to be lots of “end of the world” parties and get togethers, some will be in fun, people using anything as an excuse to party, some will be serious with people waiting for the end to come. I fully expect to wake up on Saturday to an essentially unchanged world.
What are your thoughts?
Wretha
