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Collapsitarianism has definitely been popular this decade.

What I am waiting for is 2012. I don't believe the world is going to end, but a lot of Boomers and others do. I just wonder what Boomers will do when the sacred date arrives. Being a Prophet type, Boomers have always been obsessed with the apocalypse. In the Boom lifetime, this orientation towards apocalyptic philosophies has expressed itself in each phase of life. In the 1970s, it fanned the flames of the New Age movement. In the 1990s, it led to the huge Y2K event. Now, with 2012 approaching, we will get to see all of this from an elder Prophet perspective for once.

2012 will seemingly come along at a very coincidental moment in history. The oldest Boomers will be 69, the oldest Xers 51, and the oldest Millennials 30. With Boomers now in elderhood stage, 2012 will likely give many old Aquarian Boomers a mandate for their Gray Champion crusades.

As a Millennial the collapsitarian talk is really off putting. And the more I research, the more I think that total collapse is unlikely. In fact, I increasingly believe that will come out of this Crisis much better than when we entered it. The main difference, I think, is that the next saeculum will be a much different era from today technologically. We will have solved our problems and will be living a higher standard of life than today, but it will be much different from the Electronic Age (Post WWII) America that we have become familiar with.