Media sources and entertainment have created an apocalypse "buzz". I'm aware that many scriptures (and Aztec calendar, yada yada) foretell the end of time, but I've always thought of that as a sort of reoccurring metaphor of cycles, each generation/age witnessing its own decline. Now with mass consciousness progressing telescopically, with the aid of modern media (of course including movies and TV), we may be ensuring the destructive outcome, like a typical self-fulfilling-prophecy. Or even worse, a scripted endgame. Either population control has begun on a new level, and the manufacturing of despair is intentional, or we have collectively made some terrible oversights. Today a nine year old girl told me told me that in 2012, god would judge the sinners, and the earth would burn. I didn’t know what to say, but gave it a whirl. I tried to explain that there are different interpretations to the bible (her reference) and that no one REALLY knows what will happen.  I told her not to worry about it, and to not watch movies like 2012 (which apparently disturbed her deeply). I explained that the movie was not any more real than Shrek, and yet, far less enjoyable. At that point, she cried tears streaking through her butterfly face paint and class was over.