Still worried about the world ending on December 21, 2012?
This Cracked article should dispel your fears. They do a bang-up job of uncovering the source of this particular apocalyptic scenario:
It all started in 1975, when a bunch of New Age authors / hippies decided to take a break from their social worthlessness to talk about the Mayan calendar. Since this was not long after the whole "Age of Aquarius" craze made popular by the 1967 musical Hair, these sacks figured there might be a growing market of hipsters to learn about the new "age" . . . the Mayan calendar would enter on December 21, 2012. Sounds pretty harmless, and it was.
And then entered Terence McKenna...
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