It's the End of the World- Again

Dooms Day looms large. Or at least everybody thinks it does. Seems like every night this week while flipping channels I’ve run across some documentary on 2012 which is when the ancient Mayan calendar ends. Since this 2,000 (or 5,000 I forget which) calendar ends on 2012 most people seem to be drawing the conclusion that the world as we know it will end. I’m thinking 1,000 years is a heck of a long time to calculate and maybe that was just a good stopping point. Maybe they ran out of space. I found it odd that the Mayans can figure out the exact date the world ends but they couldn’t predict their own civilization’s end.
Then there’s this thing called the web bot project were computers scan the Internet and looks for prophecy. It was originally designed to pick stocks, but a tech was analyzing the data one day and realized something much more foreboding was in the works. He predicted life in America would change as we know it and then 9/11 happened. So now web bot searches for the end of the world by scanning the Net and looking for particular words and phrases.
So here’s the thing- wouldn’t it be a chain reaction?
Let us say that The History Channel does a show on 2012 and then half the bloggers in America watches and writes about it. This in turn reminds their readers of say the Heaven’s Gate Cult. So they post comments and then web bot scans the Internet and reports that there is a rise in cult like beliefs of the world ending. A journalist gets wind of the story and does a televised report which results in ten million Americans running to their computers and Googling The Book of Revelations. Web Bot reports a greater increase in the belief that the world is coming to an end.
Then let us say that a natural disaster occurs- Hurricane Katrina all over again. And the whole worlds shouts, ‘see? The end of days is nigh!’
All of this is rather depressing so I decided to counteract the doom with these predictions:
In 2012 world peace will finally occur. We will have the best Christmas ever, complete with snow.
January 2013- realizing 2012 was nothing everybody throws a big party. Due to the increase in spending, the American economy finally stabilizes.
Valentine’s Day 2013- still riding the high from the last two months, every couple in America either gets married or renews their vows. Divorce becomes a bad word.
2014- the first new baby boom
2020- the new baby boomers start school and thus there is a renewed interest in education. The American public school system becomes the best in the world.
2021- the whole world finally goes green so that our children can truly inherit the earth.