The End is Near...I Think?

If I were to believe everything that I was told in the media, it would seem an almost certain conclusion that in my lifetime the world will be utterly destroyed. The "Apocalypse" as it is often called, will wipe out the entire population of the earth in some grand fashion and that will be that. There are so many ways that it could happen such as zombies, a meteor, computers taking over, aliens, global warming, nuclear weapons, biker mice from mars, etc. With so many options our odds don't look good at all, we should all just give up and wait for the end.

Give me a break.

During our discussion this week on the Apocalypse it became very clear to me that our world has to be nuts. The Earth has been around for billions of years, long before humans were ever relevant creatures. I like the odds that the Earth will be around long after the last of us humans has died off. Trying to predict a future day of reckoning where all humans are going to be wiped out is such a waste of time. It's also disturbing.

Unfortunately, the media has a knack for jumping onto anything that will cause panic in the public eye. Once the media has its hold, they will milk that cow til its dry. The sheer number of apocalypse themed movies that have been created in the past few decades is surely an indication of this. Not to mention the number of hours of news time people get if they predict that the world will end in the coming year.

How am I ever to believe that our world will be coming to an end if no one can ever agree on how that is going to happen? Making a thousand predictions and praying that one will be right so that you can say I told you so (actually, they wouldn't be able to...) is like taking credit for the weather. Obviously the world will end one day, no one knows when how or why. But why waste time the time and energy on such a pointless topic? After all, once the apocalypse does come it's not like we are going to be able to analyze it after the fact. We will be gone.

All the movies that have been created on the apocalypse I'll admit make for a great source of entertainment. Seeing what new theory can be kicked into our heads by the movie industry is always fun. I personally enjoy the apocalypse themed movies that offer a nice side of comedy with them. I want to laugh at the end of the world, not cry. Zombieland (see below) for example tries to teach us how to survive a zombie apocalypse, they even give us rules to follow such as the popular "Double Tap".

For more on this please see the 32 Rules of Zombieland: http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_16631.html

I appreciate the fact that I am not the only one who sees the idea of an apocalypse as a farce. I agree with the approach to see the apocalypse in a funny tone. Too many people will be scrambling to cling onto a life that won't matter once the apocalypse comes. If I can pretend to be a zombie instead and scare these people then I would much rather do that. Thanks to Bill Murray, I will do my best to make sure that this happens.