Hollywood has a tendency to sensationalize things, and much of 2012 can be attributed to what happened in Hollywood, or in politics which are both becoming more or less part of the same American blob. As 2012 draws to a close with the best 3D movies playing at the theater, and the apocalypse behind us, one must stop and wonder how much of what will be remembered in 2012 was real. With this awesome, emerging industry materializing in 3D/VFX, film, music, and entertainment it's becoming clear where the future is, and it has something to do with virtual worlds tingling our pleasure centers with new technology and manipulations while sitting in the comfort of our homes. It has something to do with intravenous feeds. It has something to do with generating a lot of hype and incentive for a constructed artificial place, while seizing control of the real world through military force, then sitting back to watch if the masses take the bait and migrate away from that scary world outside that is all too real to bare. It might even be an industry you are being paid to create.
As we stare through our plastic polarized goggles into the comfort of a future screen that promises to control what we see, and separate us from the pain of real experiences, we should think of 2012 not as the cataclysm that never was or delivered us from bondage, but the end of an era where matching socks, symmetrical haircuts, and general conformity was an option. A time where boredom was permitted long enough to allow an attention span great enough for the smallest form of enlightenment. A time where the buildup to slavery still permitted humanity in all it's raw ugly dirty beauty, to breathe. Where a population of homeless were permitted because of the shared belief that you can never build a perfect society that each and every individual can bend themselves into. A time where corporations didn't have complete dominance over what we see, say, eat, and believe. A time when submission was an option, and freedom of choice was more or less generally accepted.
Try not to think of 2012 as the end of the world. The apocalypse is behind us now, and the beginning of a new age promises the best of surreal unreality. You will never venture outside your "living-room" again.
