Thursday, December 20, 2012

An excuse to freak out


Today I heard David Stuart, the archaeologist who translated the Mayan tablet which pegs December 21, 2012 as the end of an important cycle in time, but not the end of the world, explain the late hoopla thusly: "I think in our culture, too, or maybe globally — humans like to come up with excuses, sometimes, just to freak out."

And while we're on the subject of unnecessary freaking out:
 

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