Vanity Fair and City II (30)

The Mayan Prophecies are everywhere these days. Ivy, PP spent lots of time reading articles about it and the end of the world, 2012.

So I read some articles about it. Not as horrible as what they said, it is quite interesting.

It is said that, the First, the Second, the Third and the Four Age of the Sun, which are also called MATLACTIL ART (“The High Power Civilization”), Ehecatl (“The Diet Civilization”), Tleyquiyahuillo ( “The Biological Energy Civilization”) and Tzontlilic ( “The Light Civilization”), have gone; now we are in the Fifth one, which is translated as “The Emotional Civilization” and which will end on December 21, 2012.

“When the night falls on December 21, 2012, the dawn of the next day, December 22, will never come.”

All right. On December 21, 2012, when the night falls, I must stay up all night long, to wait for the new day, to see the sun rise from the east again.

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The Emotional Civilization… When I read these words, I have a warm feeling inside myself. Yes, at least we can feel, we have emotion, and we are emotional even though we always claim ourselves to be thinkers.

It is said that Shenzhen is the desert of civilization. Yes, it is right in a sense, after all she only has a very short history. Unlike those old, cultural cities with long histories, she has nothing to be proud.

It is also said that Shenzhen is the desert of emotion. Yes, it is right in a sense too, after all people come here from every corner of China, for money, for benefit, and for fame, for gain. So even the closest friends will betray you, even the closest colleagues will lay a cunning trap for you, like what PP did to Peter.

PP and Perer worked face to face in one office. But PP spread some bad rumours about Peter to our female boss, Kate, secretly. So Peter gave a bad impression in Kate’s heart, so quarrels were inevitable… After this, Peter pondered and came to a conclusion: He is too talktive, he is always boosting himself, and he is always poking fun at everything and maybe that has offended PP…

Well, yea, maybe Shenzhen is the desert of emotion, but even in the Sahara Desert there are a few oasises. Anyway, there are some limited “emotions” here, like friendship, colleagueship, neighborship, and love.

And who can say that anger, sadness, envy, hatred, desperation, even apathy, which penetrate everywhere, are not emotions.

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I don’t know the difference between “The Emotional Civilization” and “The Spiritual Civilization” exactly.

It is said that when December 21, 2012 comes, our civilization, “The Emotional Civilization” will end, and a new civilization, “The Spiritual Civilization”, will be born.

“When we contemplate the expression ‘end of the world’, let us realize the term ‘world’ can refer to a cycle; a period of time; a world age era. Therefore 2012 is signalling the completion of one World Age Cycle, transitting into an emerging New World Age to come.

“It is said that the world we are ending is the one that is dominated by materialism and ego consciousness, therefore it may be that the world to follow will be founded on different values that honor the spirit of the interdependence of all of life.”
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Well, according to these, shouldn’t our civilization be called “Material Civilization”?

And I find the following is very profound while the nature has already warned us by earthquakes, drought, sand storms…

“It is important to understand that these modern fantasies projected from our collective psyche are reflecting our internal process of fearing how out of harmony with nature we are collectively living. There is a sense of an impending retaliation from nature that will come, as a great punishment upon our misguided human world.”
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