Cowardly Hollywood at its best-the whole town has the moral courage of a grapefruit....except when it comes to attacking their country and Christianity.
Thinking back these things come along about every eight to twelve years.
Around 1992,3 there was a planetary alignment that was coming up, and for a decade or so before that, there were claims that this was going to result in the end of the world. I know a guy who totally screwed up his life, at least in part influenced on his fear of this end of the world event.
As you state there was the Y2K thing.
Now there’s 2012.
After 2012, there will be something else to obsess over.
The weak minded are in for a tough ride over the next three years. The media is going to ride this pony for all it’s worth. I suspect we’re just getting started.
Y2K was a REAL threat, from an IT perspective. If we had not remediated the code we did, it could have brought the civilized world to it’s knees.
But we did and it didn’t.
BTW, there are short term examples of this mindset too, with people heralding the horrific things that will happen with things like the flesh eating disease, the Bird Flu, H1N1, and other medical ailments.