Apparently the 2012 apocalypse money making scare machine is working. Many people are
genuinly afraid that the end of the world really is at hand and
"A lot of [the submitters] are people who are genuinely frightened," said Morrison, who thinks movie marketers, authors, and others out to make a buck are feeding some of the fears.
"I've had two teenagers who were considering killing themselves, because they didn't want to be around when the world ends," he said. "Two women in the last two weeks said they were contemplating killing their children and themselves so they wouldn't have to suffer through the end of the world."
Sony have indulged in some pretty shady marketing schemes for their blockbuster apocalypse horror movie by setting up several websites like
The Institute for Human Continuity which in response to complaints, now say "Part of the 2012 movie experience" in small letters at the top.
But given that a majority of Americans can't tell that Genesis is myth, how can we expect them to cope with slick CGI, marketing and fake experts on websites assuring them that Armageddon is at hand. Even after the birth certificate has been produced, photographed and examined by the press, a large proportion of Americans still believe Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.
It helps a bit for
NASA to debunk the myths but of course the conspiracy nuts who seem in the ascendant these days will just say that as an arm of the government that's what you expect them to say.
Rapturists, end times prophets, government conspiracists, new agers, UFOlogists, and general woo believers are all beginning an orgy of fear. I bet even $cientologists will be out there promising Xenu will return.
Maybe the only good that will come of this is if the gullible third of the population all commit suicide on December 20 and raise the overall intelligence of the population.
Posted: January 9th, 2009, 12:46 pm