Asked on my facebook.
Okay, let's start off with, I don't think it'll be a catastrophic apocalypse. I don't think nothing will happen, but I doubt it'll be physical. Sure, there might be a hurricane or a tidal wave, or an earthquake. But those happen all the time anyway, so that's nothing new.
Let's see here, semi logically, considering we are talking about a prophecy/mayan calendar/etc.
Currently, the situation politically, economically and socially are all tied together in a way. The people at the tippy-top of the food chain financially jacked a bunch of people around, screwed them out of their homes, they pay minimum wage for psychologically straining jobs (I'm sorry, but customer service is NOT all that fun. Plastering a smile on your face while people treat you like less than dirt takes a lot out of you. Especially when you are paid minimum wage for it, and benefits aren't included.) and take all the profits. They donate what they have to to charity to avoid extreme taxes, get budget cuts, and have this insane, absurd attitude that people should just pick themselves up by their boot straps.
Now, has anyone ever thought of that? Of what that means? It means that while you are where you are, you're supposed to magically grab part of your shoe and somehow maneuver yourself "up". Now, tell me. Does that make sense?? No. It's physically impossible to do so.
This is the world we live in though. We live in a world where our most recent generation was fed top 10 lists and grew up with fancy stupid little toys that come out once a year. We were sat in front of the TV and fed propaganda. Sure, not political propaganda. But what else is marketing?
People are starting to catch on that the American dream is no longer feasible in the grand scale. Yes, some are lucky enough to manage it... If you have your foot in the door. If you manage to get on the right lists, which are smaller in comparison to the amount of people trying for them. And people are getting angry.
I support Occupy Wall Street. I don't think that that specifically will do what it's intended, no. Sure, there are issues with it, kinks in the chain so to speak.. But you know what occupy has done? For me, it has changed my life. I've had such overwhelming support by Occupiers I don't even know. It's shown me that I am not alone in my observations of our world. (For the record, this still has to do with the question). Occupy has also woken up activists who were long sleeping, feeling that they couldn't do everything alone.
It showed them that they are not alone, and they've begun to do things. People's homes have been saved from foreclosure. Lives have been changed, when the "rules" in place do nothing to help.
I think that this movement might change. It might help more and more people, and have more and more of a blunt side to it regarding the failures of our government.
Perhaps an event that day will be the trigger for something more. Who knows. But I do know things are changing, and I'm very happy.
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