You know it is officially a popular trend when USA Today picks up on something, and for all the chatter on the Maya 2012 prophecy USA Today makes some of their own predictions:
"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."
Cashing in!? Dear lady, we are trying to tell you of impending doom! But wait, if USA Today says it is a fabrication, maybe I should believe them. What else do they say?
University of Florida anthropologist Susan Gillespie says the 2012 phenomenon comes "from media and from other people making use of the Maya past to fulfill agendas that are really their own."
Hmm. You are shifting my paradigm USA Today. People using the Maya to fulfill their own agendas? Who would be so crass? I ask you... But really, it is a good article, some interesting nuggets in there.
