The world ended last year. Unfortunately for us, we were all too busy to notice. Many commentators and philosophers had warned us of the dangers of our business, but not even the most dire imagined we could all miss such a cataclysmic event. Yet we did.
Had it not been for the untiring work of a small group of archeologists and academics, we may still be ignorant. And they could hardly believe it themselves. Yet there it was, and no matter how many different ways they tried to analyze the data, the result was the same--the end of the world in 2009.
Thus, they were faced with a moral dilemma. Should they announce their findings or cover it up, hoping desperately that no one else would stumble upon their discovery. They argued among themselves for several months, inadvertently prolonging our ignorance, but finally the responsibilities of their calling won out.
They had no alternative, they had to release their finding to the world.
And what a shocking discovery it was. Many scholars have studied the ancient Mayan calendar which counts down our existence. Prediction upon prediction has been made, corrected, revised, disputed, and made again. But proving once and for all that hindsight truly is 20/20, this group finally cracked the code. The end of the world was predicted for--and like all good predictions took place--last year.
If only we had invested more in space colonization...
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The above story is pure fiction, inspired by yet another reconfiguring of the Mayan calendar.
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