Yes it is symbolic, but it is also real in ceritan ways. I see this as an especially American anxiety, which is being played out using cosmic symbolism. The end of world in the Mayan calendar is not an issue in my country, Australia. But there is ceritanly an end looming for the United States the end of its world dominance, for instance, its international prestige; its end as a world power. These are real facts and thus easily attached to anything cosmic' that we can lay our hands on. Because the end of American empire is in truth a cosmic event.

by Geoffrey 07:28:14 PM 2013.03.14