Will we soon be reaching the end of the end of the world? Recently we heard the news that the world will end between the 22nd and 28th of September of the present year 2015, there was such a commotion that NASA itself came out publicly to deny it.
The end of the world is an event that has been announced over the last 2000 years and possibly before, there is no doubt that if we wait a few thousand years more (just 1000 if we listen to Stephen Hawking), they will be right.
The sad paradox is that what will cause the end of the world is being caused right now!!, at this very moment, every second is discount time toward the annihilation of the human race, and without needing asteroids, without needing antichrists or round millenary figures, it is only necessary to continue living as if the planet's resources were infinite, as if we were about to discover planet Pandora but without creatures or inhabitants that could bother us, ALL FOR THE HUMAN RACE.
Every second that passes is the end of the world for someone, it is estimated that more than 153,000 people die per day on this planet, the end of the world comes sooner or later for everyone, these numbers are so dizzying that one has to wonder about the wisdom of the ancient popes distributing indulgences and little plots of land with views of heaven.
Where does the fear of the end of the world come from?
If we fear the physical end of humans we enter the realm of the absurd, because 153,000 individuals experience it each day, and all of us who are alive will enter that statistic at some point.
Is what we fear the end of the earth? We know for certain that in 5 billion years the Sun, converted into a red giant, will expand and engulf nearby planets, surely Earth as well, but this is already happening with China and it's not the end of the world :), in any case much sooner, in 3 billion years, the water will evaporate and life will become very difficult without water.
So what is it that we really fear? In my opinion, the fear is about the end of the human being, the human being as a fruit of long and costly evolution, beyond his customs and culture feels connected to each other, and ancestral fear is inscribed in our genes, before us there was a massive extinction of other hominids, Neanderthal man was finished off and surely to avoid it he mixed with us, if we carry something of them in our genes, there is nothing strange about the fear of complete extinction.
But most of the time the fear is about losing what provides security, fear of change, have you ever stopped to think that before humans walked this earth the world already existed? Are we perhaps the reason for the world's existence? Well, although reason says NO, something tells us YES, it's as if we believed we are the iPhone 10000, and everything before was insignificant compared to us, but really before and after us this world has a reason to exist, LIFE.