The End of the Future

If we were to believe the forecasts of the esoteric prophets of doom, it might have been to be somewhat uncomfortable. Naturally, nothing happened at the 2012 winter solstice. Nevertheless, people always want to believe in catastrophe. Fear of the future is big business for many and has the cash registers of modern end-of-days prophets ringing. Science and technology fool us into thinking that we have absolute dominance over nature. What remains is the latent panic in the face of anything that manages to evade our influence.