So now that 2012 went by with a whimper, without the slightest trace of apocalypse (the closest we got was peering down the edge of the "fiscal cliff", and on the Apocalypse scale, a fiscal cliff is just pathetic) I think it's time for the next movie: 2015. I know, I know we had the authority of the Mayans behind 2012, but so what. It could have been an error, an oversight by the Mayan calendar-maker.
In fact, every movie in the "Apocalypse
Now 3 Years Hence" series begins with an explanation of why the original 2012 prognostication was wrong. The sequence depicts the revered ancient Mayan calendar-maker delegating a seemingly routine calculation to a careless intern, who messes up. It can be a bit like
Dinosaur comics, where there's a different explanation for the same action, in every movie. One time, the intern is not concentrating on the math because he's thinking of this cute Mayan girl. Anther instance, he's thinking of building a time machine so that he can go into the future to check if the apocalypse task he is currently working on, actually pans out. You know- job satisfaction- you want to be working on something relevant, not mumbo-jumbo, and the smart intern does in fact suspect mumbo-jumbo.
So anyhow, it is established that the correct apocalypse date is actually 2015 (or 2018, 2021 and so on..) and then the writer/director proceeds to weave a different disaster tale on every occasion. Sun spots, alien attack, flu contagion, so on.
There can be a huge societal benefit from making and consuming the "Apocalypse
Now 3 Years Hence" series. I read an interesting book about Israel's economic miracle called "Start Up Nation", and one of the reasons it ascribes to the crazy number of start ups in Israel is the "siege mentality" they possess. They are at war all the time, so they don't know whether they would live two years from now, and therefore, whatever they think of, they do it NOW- big risk takers. I have this great idea, let me start up now for god knows if I'll be around two years later; I want to travel, let me do it now; I want to ask this girl out-no dithering. No self doubt. No fear of failure. Just go ahead and ask her. Go to Church Street or Brigade Road or something. Parking is easier on Church Street, mind you, and Church Street has other useful destinations, too- Blossom book house, Amoeba bowling.- where you can get away from making conversation. What are you waiting for- what's the worst that can happen!!?
Sorry, I got distracted, what I meant to say is, regular consumption of "Apocalypse
Now 3 Years Hence" movies will engender a siege mentality and the world will experience an economic miracle akin to that of Israel.
