Jan 9, 2011

2012 Doomsday scenarios may not be what you think



There are all sorts of prophesies and predictions about the end of the world as we know it. Some claim the skies will darken and all life will suddenly cease to exist. Others say many will die and those left will be forced to exist in a world of a living Hell. The Mayan prophesies of the end of days on December 21, 2012 is most intriguing to many. It predicts a catastrophic event that will change the world, but is not specific as to whether it is natural or human-induced.

“The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012, which is said to be the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae related to this date have been proposed.”

Some interpretations of this suggest that during this time Earth and its inhabitants may undergo “a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era.”

There is an aspect to transition philosophies that omit a factor that is more prevalent in today’s world than almost any other. That factor is money.

The 21st century has been marked as a period of great financial turmoil. In 2008, the United Sates financial markets collapsed, causing the foundation of capitalism to be compromised in a way never seen before. The government was forced to give trillions of dollars of borrowed money to keep intertwined world financial markets from total destruction. This single event may be the key to predictions of some doomsday scenarios, particularly the 2012 Mayan prophesy, because due to its size, the United States economy is so crucial to the global marketplace. If America ‘goes down’ the rest of the world goes with her.

By 2012, the U.S. debt which is currently $14 trillion dollars and growing, may become un-payable.  That means America will have finally reached the point where she no longer has enough income or ability to borrow to pay her bills. Credit default by the United States will change the world in an instant.

Millions of Americans who rely on payments, pensions and jobs from the government would stop, sending all of them into abject poverty. Around the world, foreign governments that depend on aid from the U.S. would also see their incomes end. In short, the result would be utter chaos on a global scale. Riots would break out; cities would be burned; governments would collapse, and society as we know it would go through a transformation through anarchy.

The specific date of December 21, 2012 in the Mayan prophesies may point to a stock market crash, or other such economic event. Or it could refer to an equally catastrophic financial crisis in another of the world’s largest economies like China.

However the event occurs, it is entirely possible that 2012 doomsday scenarios may not take the form many people think it will.  And it may not occur on the specific date the Mayan’s predicted.

Yet one thing is clear; money is the most powerful influence in the everyday lives if individuals on this planet. It decides what you eat, where you live and whether or not you received medical care when you need it most.

2012 doomsday scenarios may be the result of ancient visions of the tumultuous after effects of a twenty-first century financial event that primitive prophesies simply could not describe in terms so foreign to the culture of their days.

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