Mandatory Post-Apocalyptic Update...

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To all of you who are reading this, congratulations on your survival. For those who actually wanted to world to end last night, better luck next time...

In response to all the "Mayans were wrong" - or something along the lines - posts that are flooding the internet, it's worth pointing out that the Mayans were, in fact, not wrong. The Mayans weren't right either; since they never predicted anything. The world was not going to end, at least not on the day that the Mayan calendar "ended."

Long time before all this apocalypse nonsense emerged, experts in Mayan cultures have explained that Dec. 21, 2012 is just another reset of a "b'ak'tun" (equivalence of a 144,000-day period). In modern terms, that would be the equivalence of simply getting a new calendar for the upcoming year. Yet for some reason, there still exists a non-zero number of fully functional human beings who firmly believe that the world was going to end on Dec. 21, 2012, when the Mayan calendar "flipped."

It's really comical to see a group of modern humans who supposedly have full access to modern (and accurate) calendars that do not end on Dec. 21 freaking out, partying like there's no tomorrow (literally) and doing other brainless stuff while the actual Mayans in Mexico and nearby areas are still living a perfectly normal life.

Why? Because on a beautiful day, as these modern people™ were surfing the internet, they stumbled upon a random website such as this, where the author, using poorly-constructed diagrams and science-ish terms, claimed that something called a "magnetic pole reversal" is occurring. This phenomenon, in turn, would cause "super volcanic activities and massive earthquakes" and subsequently, the end of the world.

"Seems pretty legit," these modern people™ said to themselves.

This is very ironic, since for some reason having any kind of information available at one's fingertips can actually cause people to be willfully uninformed.

It's impossible to even imagine modern society without the internet; as human beings have benefited in many ways from the internet ever since its existence. But without critical thinking, one can easily drown in the sea of information that it provides.

And life goes on, for better or worse...