People truly thought the end of the world was beginning with Khruschev, when he told America that "We will bury you." He meant America's own working class to the 1%; it just didn't dawn on them yet. The 60s was a decade under the canopy of fear of the Cold War. The Hippies tried to brighten things up. Many musicians helped the world to forget the chill in the air. Minimum wage actually meant "The minimum amount needed, to own one house, one car for an entire family."
70s, Nixon pulled us out of an unwinnable war in Vietnam from pressure of the American people. Oil Embargo. Living started to go up, investors from overseas began to buy land in CA & the Heartland.
Fear of Planetary alignment in the year 1980 put the fear of God in many people, as they truly believed the planet would crack in half, or at least half the population would die off. Nada happened.
Many of us lived to see the Wall come down in Berlin, and watched Pink Floyd and many musicians play their hit, The Wall, there, live in 1990. The world's heart lifted dramatically.
2000, computers of course, didn't end the world, no one needed the panic of purchasing generators.
I believe something else, about the weird circumstances of the year 2012; I think the Mayans were killed off, simply before they could revise it like they did, periodically.
I've lived through so many "End of the World" cycles, that I feel people just MUST dredge something from history, tweak it, twist it. Take it from the ramblings of dead men, and give it a new spin, to make money off of it.
I'm a native Californian, and I simply can't tell you how many times I've been told, "Oh, the big one's going to drag you all into the water this year, bye-bye!" Actually, it's NYC that's on a shelf, sillies.
Michael didn't warn us about all of this; though, he did say to LOVE, and it's the ANSWER. Let go of FEAR.
