I am deeply disturbed and disappointed.
My nephew, who is staying with me for the summer, keeps asking me questions about the world ending in 2012. Tired of repeating the same reassurances over and over, I asked him why he was afraid of the world ending? Where did he get that idea?
Apparently, he watched a trailer to the movie “2012″ which graphically depicts the world ending horrifically during this time. I started to watch it, and my mind would not let me finish. He had watched the trailer in its entirety and now was feeling very confused. His 13-year old mind knows it is fiction, but there is another part of him who is very scared that this could be more truth than fiction.
Why am disturbed? I am disturbed by the impact this film is going to have on the cultural consciousness as millions of people flock to see it. It will have a profoundly negative effect; such graphic depiction of negativity can not produce anything else any more than an acorn can produce a wheat stalk. (more…)
