My Friends,
The world is supposed to end this upcoming year. I don't know about you but I'm kind of excited. I don't think there's anyone in the circles I roll with who couldn't benefit from the kind of shake-up to their daily routine that only the end of the world can provide. I am especially excited though because in my capacity as traveler I may find myself in the enviable position of being in certain countries as they are racked by the Mayan equivalent of the Book of Revelations. Jealous? Jelly?
The world is supposed to end this upcoming year. I don't know about you but I'm kind of excited. I don't think there's anyone in the circles I roll with who couldn't benefit from the kind of shake-up to their daily routine that only the end of the world can provide. I am especially excited though because in my capacity as traveler I may find myself in the enviable position of being in certain countries as they are racked by the Mayan equivalent of the Book of Revelations.
Mad ... YOU!
Yes, if I play my cards right I could be that foreign guy who happens to be in the right place at the right time to witness the world open up and swallow all those third worlders who are indiscriminately being forced to pay for the mistakes of the Mayans, who lacked the foresight to make a calendar that wasn't finite.
As lulzy as the plight of the third world is, I don't think too much is going to happen but I hope it does. Let me explain: I have no wish for third-world misery, the end of the world or death, but from my understanding, 2012 is allegedly going to be a period of great transition marked by greater awareness of the ills of the world and a desire by the masses to see them rectified. I am doubtful that this will happen for two reasons: 1) I have little faith in the masses 2) I don't believe in a guiding hand which governs human existence. Still, I hope something happens, because in my estimation, shit is all fucked up.
Looking at some of the recent events which have occurred and are occurring still, it is easy and convenient to construe them as harbingers of upcoming events. Things like the Occupy Wall Street movement are nothing if not a protest against the status quo and the way things have been. You can construe this as some kind of sign of heightened awareness if you want, but then protests are as old as civilization itself.
Beyond heightened awareness, I have also heard that certain "events" will herald 2012 as early as late 2011. Well as vague as that is, it is still easy to hear news reports and forcibly fit them into the template of 2012 which exists in my mind. For example, here in Italy there has been flooding in a city I was going to go to (Rome) and a city I had just left (San Remo). Oh my God, the end of the world is chasing me!! Also, last week in Italy the 24 year old motorcycle racing star, Marco Simoncelli died, which, if you really want to grasp at straws, could be construed as some kind of significant death of a Christ-figure leading up to the apocalypse (it'd be like Justin Bieber dying back in Canada).
"How does I martyrdom?"
All of these things added up in my mind (plus the earthquake in Turkey which is my next destination), and because we are very me-centric people, I sub-consciously saw these events as signs. Then I realized, "wait, if I was back in Canada I wouldnt give a vial of monkey-piss about an Italian motorcycle racer or flooding in some European backwater like Rome," and I smartened the fuck up.
So who knows? I don't expect anything will happen to overthrow the flawed system we live in, but because I have very little to lose and lots to gain, I'm down for whatever. If apocalyptic shit does transpire in one of the places I end up, trust that I will act as your real-as-fuck correspondent, bringing you my own particular brand of justice fact-based entertainment.
Stay Thirsty,
-Andre Guantanamo
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