The year 2012 is the year of extinction, many things seem to converge at this point, the pyramids of Egypt with this date noted inside one of them, the prophecies of Nostradamus and other prophecies such as those of the Maya.
All this is a mockery to common sense, let's see things as they really happen, within 1 year life on earth could disappear, it's true, it's very unlikely but it could happen, for example a huge extrasolar object could collide and cause a disaster of similar magnitude to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, a large part of humanity could succumb to an epidemic of some type of virus not currently known, the LHC causes a black hole and swallows the earth (This is a joke) etc. etc., result of this:
The earth after a time would regenerate and the human race could decline significantly or become extinct, well it's something undesirable but the truth is that for thousands of years humans have been dying, normally not in a massive way except for a great war or epidemic, but rather in a more or less natural way, each being that dies experiences their particular end of the world, the difference is in the quantity, for it to be considered the end of the world, most of humanity or all of it must be wiped out.
Theories change, the way of living, of seeing life, of contemplating beauty, the economy, life expectancy and even reality changes if we admit that we contemplate everything from a temporal-limited perspective, and well it doesn't seem like this worries us much, mostly because it happens little by little and we don't have sufficient perspective in one lifetime, the vast majority of the prejudices we use lack value when observed from a sufficient distance, what a pity that we don't invent a popular way of doing it.
Nor does it seem to worry us in the slightest the part of Earth's history in which human beings did not exist and there was simply no humanity, something similar to the worst of apocalyptic scenarios, thank goodness no man witnessed such an atrocity «an earth without human beings», we can however imagine that the human race disappears, it's a concern in which we place ourselves above the earth, the solar system, the galaxy and the universe in its immeasurable and infinite totality, goodness, doesn't anyone seem to fear that the universe might have an end?.
The human being is a specialist in survival, ultimately the purpose of evolution is to get out of all of it one way or another, and certainly it seems we have no concerns beyond our human belly button.
As an example let's take the fuss over 2012 and the end of the world, a concern fueled by interests with a selfish basis, wouldn't it be more liberating and closer to the truth to contemplate the world from a perspective independent of man?, ultimately we are objectively only one element more, and it's unlikely that any of my readers will be alive in 150 years
A total destruction of the globe would align all the species that inhabit it and would have repercussions for the rest of the solar system, but Nostradamus nor the Maya nor anyone talks about any of this, everyone worries about themselves, a little suspicious no? Is man, situated in a tiny solar system on the outer edge of a small galaxy in perhaps an infinite universe, something important? or rather is something that gives itself great importance, Aren't we positioning ourselves as the center of the universe?
If one day we discover that millions of light years away there exists an intelligent organic form of life, will we continue to feel like the center of the universe? And if they also feel like the center of the universe because they believe they are unique?
A quote says that «if all insects disappeared from the earth all forms of life would also die in about 50 years, however if man disappeared all forms of life would flourish in less than 50 years» fortunately and despite the fact that we are not the center of the universe, we are the center of life on earth, if it weren't like that we would have already disappeared, this video is about animals that we know with absolute certainty are becoming extinct, of course Nostradamus said nothing about this, they are not the center of the universe, they are only part of it.