there’s a facebook poll called “What do you do now if 2012 is the end?” It looks like bullshit movie hype, but the comments under it contain an intense debate about the actual 2012 subject we all stand to learn from. I can’t link to the survey without it going to the movie’s adpage so find it for yourself if interested. There appears to have been a limited time window to participate in this poll as well.
The poll looked like this:
What would you do now if 2012 is the end?
Spend Time With My Family (45%)
Max Out My Credit Cards (22%)
Pursue My Crush (28%)
Now if we choose to, we can read a lot into these three choices juxtaposed with the idea of “the end of the world.” It is assumed through some strange Hollywood-inspired principle that if the world is going to end that every individual will go into reckless hedonic abandon. This survey tells us something that should already be obvious: that three of the accepted societal outlets for emotional, existential, political, and spiritual confusion do nothing but perpetuate that society’s assumptions, both harmless and deadly.
Spend Time With My Family (45%)
The nuclear family, through the enforcement through media and law of “family values” is in many cases a repressive microcosmic unit enforcing macrocosmic social values of comformity and control. Fortunately the parent-child relationship is much older than this unit, and maybe in this ancient power lies one of our hopes for radical social transformation.
Max Out My Credit Cards (22%)
The unhealthy nature of this option should also be fairly obvious. The forces governing our society use people’s desire for stupid shit they don’t need in order to render them passive and distracted. The presence of this option may be a subtle (or not-so-subtle) attempt by credit card companies to overtly encourage destructive spending habits as these habits are the ones that make their investors the most money.
Pursue My Crush (28%)
This option can represent both a recapitulation to societal values and the opportunity to step outside them, as sex and love often transform people’s lives. It could be simply seeking sex or romance as a commodity and base satisfaction – either of these things are easily reintegrated back into the socio-sexual value-fabric. It could also represent the abandonment of one’s roles, limitations, and responsibilities and the pursuit of a pure and burning desire. Who knows.
Here are some of the more interesting comments that appeared below the poll, in response to the question “What do you do now if 2012 is the end?” There are many references here to sex, drinking and other drugs, and I have extracted the ones I feel to be the least redundant. I have left some spelling errors intact. I am not suggesting anything in particular by presenting this, just examining possibilities. This may be a window into our collective mindspace concerning the so-called “end of the world.” There are many reality-tunnels represented here.
here goes:
”none of these are what i would do”
”2012 is the beginning no more obama “
“Cannot wait till this shit hits the fan!!! just the preview agian”
“have an orgy”
“break as many nonviolent laws as possible. LOL”
“None of the above.”
”Loose My Vaginity.”
“The end of what? Hopefully the end of hate, bigotry, war, pestilence and famine. Maybe 2012 will just be a resetting of the cosmic clock and a fresh chance for humanity to get things right. “
“Just don’t run around naked. Cause if nothing happens, you will always be remembered as the person who ran around naked lol. “
“Watch the tv blow up with mY BFFF ALICIA !!! ♥ “
“drill a shit load of girls”
“wooopie cant wait -emo voice- dont ask y bein emo today… “
“Where is the “Party Like A Rockstar” option?”
“how about: burn everything down so it all goes a bit faster, then get totally wasted, have sex for the last time, and just sit it all out?
i don’t really like my family THAT much, i don’t need a credit card when there’s no one left to pay, i’ll just take what i want, and i don’t see how the third option makes much sence, the end of the world isn’t going to change that anyway :p “
“Repent”
“knoing the unkno i dont know! “
“I hope if 2012 is the end of this world, It will not be ill… “
“Hey!!! At least we all die together “
“All of this is lies .. Only Allah knows when is the end of the world . “
“@ people with “only god knows when the world ends” and “pray to god!” comments: oh get real kids, there is no god, never will be, and he’s not going to help you anyway. “
“If it does i’m sure they’ll build a space ship, just like the enterprise “
“kick ass like bruce lee did! “
“YOU’D WANNA BE SOME BASTARD NOT TO BE WANNA BE WITH YOUR FAMILY “
“-Travel the world “
“Crazy sex.”
“Spend time with family also i hope aliens snag some of us but hey you never know .
we are not alone….. “
“the myans predicted that 2012 would be an enlightenment the end of time, and the calendar is a cosmic one…not like our made up calendar. and the thing is there is going to be a cosmic alignment. that will synchronize our brains to the correct frequency. but that will be after the world war 3, unless someone prevents that…i just hope they dont use nukes. “
“My family? I’d have overdosed by the time it ends “
“its gunna happen fast …ppl say its not the end till we see jesus but he will take us after it happens…n make us safe…he will weather the storm…he always does!”
“its not gonna end its gonna be a new beggining “
“Chill… Prepare for Changes… Create awareness and get actively involved & continue to spread the truth… Its real – its coming and its her and now!!! “
“If there other born new world then i’m change to Female. I had enough with being Male! “
“I dont think the world will end in 2012, but we will go into a major shutdown period with mass catastrophic events millions killed, wars, famines, diseases, financial meltdown.
It could be fair to say its just started in the past few weeks with the recent big earthquakes and Tsuanami’s and warnings of Tsaunami’s.
And look what we are now doing … Read Moremessing with our neighbour the moon, blowing holes in it for scientific evidence good one put it off whack and that buggers our tides etc.
I think by 2030 things will start to settle down again and a new life will be re started along with some newly formed islands and landmasses from rising plates.
Hold on tight the start has begun. “
“can’t wait to die! conway twitty is waiting “
“i would rape meghan fox “
“ok honestly so many people get worked up about this! the guy writing the calender probably died or something and so many people are going to not want to witness it they are going to commit suicide if i see anything thats going to kill me i would find my family and enjoy what i can while i can “
“I would think about what I’m going to do if 2012 is NOT the end.. “
“THIS IS STUPID GROW UP”
“012!!! Solar flares, massive hurricanes, dawn of new technology, nebaru etc….2012 will be such an exciting year. We are such an insignificant species compared to the billions of life forms out in the universe. Things die ALL the time..planets, stars and other celestial objects so if earth came to and end….it’s just another cycle of the … Read Moreuniverse. Think about it…even if we all died because the weather patterns changed on earth, that HAS happened before. The earth heats up, cools down, heats up and cools down every so often…we are due for a cataclysmic event it’s only a matter of time and there is NOTHING we can do. There is no god. We have evolved from tiny micro-organisms because our planet is able to support life because of our atmosphere. There ARE other planets like ours. The universe is too big to fathom. Our milky way alone is 100 million light years in diameter, the probability of there being life somewhere in the universe is high. When the earth ends, we are just another species that will be extinct. When we die, we just die and that’s part of how the world works.
-hmm though what might happen is that computers will shut off ( kinda like what happened in Chicago where all flights were grounded).”
“wow talk about a misleading poll. My pysch stats teacher would be pissed.
NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. NOTHING EVER DOES. Y2k, JESUS CHRIST APPEARING, THE YETTi, ALIENS APPEARING, EVEN NOSTRODOMASS WAS JUST OVERHYPED BY THE MEDIA, HE WAS WRONG SOOOO MUCH. READ HIS ORGINAL WRITES. “
“All n’ all, I can pray and try to make my life significant. It is only in ones beyonds hands to take care of a fragile exsistant Earth like us. Things have occured in history people have never been prepared for; extraordinary things. Erotically captivating and sorrowful happenings we can’t posses. If we blame others and think al this hipocracy is … Read Moreexempt; we never really fully understand full meaning of “theory”. That like -wise judging I comply that slyness and cocky addittude should not be pre-empted to battle with. All of us are equal, all of us are famine, what we recieve is what we get; live it up with no regrets! “
“There is no “Mayan Prophecy.” December 21st, 2012 is simply the end of a great cycle. I do not know why people buy into this apocalypse crap, and do not bother to even learn about the calendar and what it actually says. The dates start at some point, and they end. This does not symbolize the end of the world just simply the end to a great cycle. “
“Y2K all over again…people grow up. “
“Look man! Think of it this way. We live and we die eventually. In this world 95% of the people live by a rule of fearing death and they only live to accomplish things before they go. But Think of it this way take a whole new approach to death accept it and don’t fear it. Life will go much smoother.
I fear death but I accepted it already. Thats why I enjoy every single day like it could be my last. I don’t regret anything that I do.
If 2012 is the end. Than it shall be that way. But right now it is still 2009 so accept it now and live a happy life. and than on Dec 21 2012 we will all look back at today have a great laugh and grab a few drinks “
“I always put this possibility in my head when ever i am afraid to do something. i always ask myself if we really only have 3 years and 2 and a half months left. many scientists have guessed that the world will end that year due to causes having nothing to do with the Mayans. I dont want to regret not doing anything. Im not afraid to die, i just dont want to go alone. “
“didnt the mayans use drugs so why do we believe their calender. “
“before 2012 probably millions of are going to die anyway 2012 is only a date …and spend time with the family no matter what …..laught out loud ..peace people “
“people believe way too much of what they see on tv and read. this is just a topic that gets peoples intrest therefore generates money in the box office “
“-I believe God is always in control!”
“okay, CLEARLY, the mayans just didn’t know how to count to 2013, and that is why their calendar ends in 2012 “
“to be honest i feel like this is bullshit, watch everyones gunna go crazy and kill themselves or everyone around them, then there will be an “end” “
“People are ridiculous. There is only so much that can be written or stored on a surface. Our civilization has only recently been able to “save” that much information on a hard drive even. Does the world end when you buy a new calendar? The “Mayan calendar” was one of many. 2012 is symbolic for a myriad of reasons. It will not bring the end of the … Read Moreworld or existence but a new age of enlightenment. And to all the suggestive and blatantly discriminatory comments here, they only display your fear/ignorance. Don’t believe the hype. “
“lol, have u ever heard of the term “the second comming”? that is y he would end the world. plus, according to isaac newton, the world is goin to end in 2060… “
“Now I remember that the world should have ended already but the world can end for an individual at anytime so you should live every day as if it were the last. Thank you and Peace Out Everyone. “
“Hahahaha if it ends up me shooting zombies then fuck yeahh ill love it but if its different then o well Fuck everyone Fuck u fuck u and screw u guys im going to hell hahaha “
“God doesn’t exist so don’t bring religion into this. I can already see the night of December 21th 2012…all the insane christians hugging their bibles and and crosses…and then when nothing happens, they’re gonna say “OH GOD SAVED US!!!”
Isn’t it possible that they got BORED? Instead, take that idea and twist it into a fucked up theory about the world ending. Y2K, 6/6/06, 2012, it’s all the same.
This is a stupid thought(and movie, I might add) made by conspiracy theorists. “
“I can understand why God would want to take man out as the highest life form and keeper of His creation. Would you want to leave mankind in charge of keeping up with anything if you had the choice. We destory and consume more than we save or produce, we litter and leave behind more waste that does not break down for centuries and polutes the … Read Morewater and land we also live on. The list goes on and on. Most of the right wing just turns their head to these issues (the ones that want to be in charge of who can and cannot raise childern) I no longer worry about it. The world will retain it’s splendor as long as I am here. If the majority of people are more worried about who I am ntaurally atracted too or sleep with over the amount of plastic floating around in the Pacific…go for it. “
“Wow. This is intense. I don’t know if I believe it or not, but it sure is fun watching all of you debate over it. It’s like watching kids fight over candy. “
“hey. i think i just scraped god off the bottom of my shoe… oh wait. thats just dog shit. eh… same difference. “
“My fiance and I thinking about getting married on Dec 21, 2012. It might be a backwards wedding too, considering the world might end, so the honeymoon will be first XD “
“the movie will be cool but nothing will happen in 2012. remember the ppl who made this calendar also killed their own ppl to make the sun come up every day.”
“people who think they are so right about it not being the end of the world how do you know? have you done research? or are you jus stating your opinions? stupid ignorant fucks!!!!!! i hate stupid fucking people. dumb bitchs”
“I mean look, they said we were all gonna die on 2000. Of course we didn’t. Did we die on 6/6/06, no. I mean like I’m in the middle of yes and no. We will just have to see. I mean I believe in “Evolution more than God” not trying to offend any Catholics or Christians. The bible could’ve been made by any person. So we will just have to wait and see what happens. We’re not just gonna die instantly, it might have to deal with Science. “
“I just think this whole 2012 thing is ridiculous, its just an excuse for assholes to talk shit about god and other things because obvioulsy they arent very fufilled with their miserable lives, believeing is not bad its ok if u dont but u should at least respect others…maybe thats why the world would end.. and nowhere is it ever written that the … Read Moremayans predicted that the world was gonna end it just the date where the cycle closes and the new one starts… i suggest people get their facts straight because not even the own mayans believe this crap….its just an easy way to get people scared and make easy moeny with stupid shows and retarded movies… “
“Are people really acknowledging all this nonsense? This isn’t 13th century turkey. There’s no science behind any of this hocus pocus.”
“REAL Scientists have flatly denied this.”
“No, people don’t have to respect other’s views on unfounded blind/uneducated faith. Shall we respect views of those who believe in goblins next? An ending calendar is just that folks. “
“To tell you the truth, at first it really scared me. I’m still in damn highschool and people are telling me that my life is gonna end in 2 years? That is so retro. F*** them all, I’m just gonna live day by day to the greatest I can, so when it all comes down to so called “doomsday”, I can look back and tell myself I did good, and on Dec. 22 I will be laughing my head off at all of the stupid people who killed themselves before the so called ‘end’. “
“Everyone is missing the point. It is the pagan religions (which really rule our world as a kind of shadow government) have their “end game” stratagy planned for 2012 / 2013. Look up the significance of these numbers and this occultation to these religions and you’ll have a much better idea of what 2012 is really about. Not the end of the world… but the begining of a final stages of implementing a New World Order. “
“ok seriously. god does NOT control the outcome of planet earth. we the people on earth do, duh. AND GOD DOESN’T CONTROL ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE EARTH. and the earth will not end on 2012. just because there is a movie doesn’t mean that it will become true. the world didn’t end with that metor hit the earth and killed off all the dinosaurs. … Read Moreso it’s not going to end anytime soon. and plus the advancement of the technology these days can really do anything. so STFU about this whole earth is ending. “
“Dec 31 2011, party at my place one last blow out just encase, lol b.y.o.b “
“I credit 2012 about as much as I credit Christian mythology, well it gets a little more credit because the idea for it is older then Christian mythology, but it’s all crap, does look like a cool movie at least”
“Obviously No One Know’s When The World Is Gonna End. Look At Y2K, Did It End Nahhhh, God Will Make His Appearence. Thats What I Think, Pretty Sure Actually, Im Young And Want To Live My Life SO I Dont Worry Cause I Know Where I’m Goin. But For Now Party On MotherFuckers. ‘Cause Its Fun “
“Imma Do My Best To Survive 2012 While The WEAK DIE”
“Smoke me a pound… spend every moment i can with my soulmate, and just be merry =] “
Just want to add my ‘two cents’ here, the Mayan Prophecies say nothing about the ‘end of the world’. It does say it is the end of a CYCLE (solar cycle). The Great Cosmic alighnment is due then. This is also the time of another great native American prophecy of the ‘Great Purifacation’. The G.P. is directed to those whom side with religions and … Read Moredivisions of their brothers (all relations)…to those people-you better get ready for the spiritworld because in the new cycle,there will be no time the satanic forces at hand on the planet. Money cannot undue a pole shift….what the ‘news’ and governments calls ‘Global Warming’. Its amazing what the indigenous peoples of Africa, Turtle Island (America), Asia, and Europe say is to come (BRING IT).
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