2012 (not the movie)

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The whole 2012 hysteria is nothing but a marketing scheme exploiting peoples paranoia in order to make money combined with the ravings of lunatics, attention seekers, and the misguided.

If there's hysteria happening on anything more than a tiny scale, then it's escaped my attention. The movie is pure escapism, I doubt many people are fooled.

I'll have to look up what the Mayan lore says is gonna happen, after all it's their calendar that is ending I believe.

I didn't know we were just talking about the movie. Nonetheless, they're still making money by capitalizing on peoples interest in a manufactured issue.

huh? who's we? who were you talking about? ok, I wasn't referring to the history channel and discovery channel stuff you mentioned. Anyways, yeah they're making money, but I think you're being a little too cynical here. History/Discovery channels are pretty level headed as tv goes. I don't think people are being exploited, they have an interest in the subject, and so people make shows about it, even if it is bullshit or speculation. I 'd say the number of people who really buy into the doom and prophesy thing is not sufficient to justify these shows. It's just interesting, or maybe just entertainment.