The Eve Of Destruction?

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

~ Vladimir Lenin

Well my friends, the “Big Day” is just about here and, despite the massive “End Of The World” debunking infographic I included in my What, Me Worry? post, it seems that many of us are still biting our nails and pulling our hair out over tomorrow’s expected “End Of The World” connected to the supposed “conclusion” of the Mayan calendar.

It certainly hasn’t helped that the TV networks we look to for objective nature and science reporting, like NatGeo, Discovery, and History, keep pounding away at us with shows about it. Of course, for me these shows are at least a welcome departure from usual “true life of Jesus” crap they normally show at this time of year. But hey, maybe we’re about to find out if Heaven really is hotter than Hell. Oh wait, I don’t think the Mayan “End Of The World” myth included a Christian afterlife… Did it?

At any rate, I’m sure we’ll all wake up on Saturday with our world intact enough to move on to other horrendous nightmare scenarios.

Like another “Snowmageddon” perhaps…

Or battling over that “perfect gift” while Christmas shopping at the last minute…

Or something even scarier, like that big “Fiscal Cliff” thing…

And, failing all of that, there’s always that ever growing army of assault-rifle-bearing-autistic-children-on-the-verge-of-committing-mass-murder to worry about…

The sad truth is that we just can’t seem to stop ourselves from conjuring up reasons to be afraid (both plausible and not so plausible), or from resting our “salvation” hopes on mythical “superheroes” and real-life humans who can’t possibly live up to the hype. And yet we never seem to look inside ourselves to where the real “demons” live…

All of which makes me wonder if we’re subconsciously diverting our attention away from a deeper truth we’d really rather not face. Like the variety of ways in which we’ve “traditionally” dealt with our fears…

“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I want ice water.

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