Artist's depiction.
Brooklyn, NY 12.21.2012 - 2:00 pm
Current date and time in Perth, Australia: 12.22.2012 - 2:45 am (or so)
As I, and many many others (including the modern descendants of the Mayans) predicted, nothing very much out of the ordinary happened today. The calendar changed.
My predictions for the next century;
The world will go on with people here to witness it. The struggles for the good of all will be complicated and nuanced but, as it has for thousands of years, life will continue to improve for the human race. We are all safer and healthier right now than at any point in human history so far, that's a fact.
There will be disasters, and setbacks, and it might get very bad at times but we will get through it. And these bad things won't come from an angry god. They will come from chance and human failings like greed, laziness, and willful ignorance.
Our species is literally still in its childhood. On average, mammalian species get a million years or more on this planet. We've had 200,000 or so. Opossums have been around for 70 - 80 million years, I bet we can split the difference. In any event, within the short blip that our individual lives represent we have to face the fact that most likely tomorrow is coming, it will be quite similar to yesterday, and we have to act accordingly.
