Why is it that people are so enamored with "end of the world" type stories? We obsessed over Y2K and the Mayan Calendar, the End of Times religious scenarios, asteroids blasting us into smithereens, or whatever.This week it's the Malachy Prophesies. Hundreds of years ago some prophet predicts there will be 112 popes....and now what happens? The 111th one quits. Here we go. I made a bet on the Pope lottery this week. I feel the next Pope will be Italian. My feeling is that the last one was German, and Polish before that. The Italians may feel the need to take back some control over there in Rome with things being as bad as they are in the Catholic religion lately.
If you have a lonely uncle (or great aunt in my case) who sits around and watches Fox News all day and is up half the night listening to Coast to Coast, they have their own far out ideas of the coming future. My 87 year old aunt won't buy new linoleum for her kitchen floor because she says the world is coming to an end anyway. Besides with the Great Depression coming, she says, we will all need the money to buy food. All stated matter of fact-ly.
Once a reasonable person, she is now reduced to a paranoid, fearful woman who hates the government, trusts no one, and fears whatever is left of her future. How could she not be afraid? With our "Muslim" president and his "far out liberal ideas?" The pretty woman with the blonde hair and the very tight red dress wouldn't LIE to her? Would she? Rich people shouldn't pay taxes at all...they are the Job Creators!
No sense talking to her about it. I just told her the linoleum REALLY does need replaced. It's yellowed and
pockmarked and just looks bad.
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