Apocalypse. Now, Please.
That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
I have a hunch. (If I may say so, my hunches are often fairly reliable.) Just because there was no great, sudden cataclysm on 12/21/12, the Mayans may not have been wrong in their predictions.
We tend to think of the dreaded word apocalypse as meaning the end of the world (an asteroid hitting earth, nuclear war). But it is also a new beginning. From Wikipedia:
An apocalypse, translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, hidden from humanity in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception. In religious contexts it is the ultimate victory of good over evil and the end of the present age, and that is the primary meaning of the term, one that dates to 1175.
The end of the present age.
Out with the old/bad, in with the new/good. And perhaps ‘sudden’ is relative. We could be in a slo-mo apocalypse right at this moment, spanning some number of years that still amounts to sudden on the greater timeline of Earth history.
I tend to be an optimist but we certainly are facing quite a number of…
