2012
The first mass media communication example in the movie 2012 is the movie 2012 itself. The movie is a Columbia Pictures production, produced by Harald Kloser, Mark Gordon, and Larry Franco. The movie will be played throughout the world reaching the masses of Europe, The Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America. The news is another example of mass media communication. The trailer on the movie’s official website shows the event 2012 in the news in different parts of the world. Public speeches from the government and religious establishments were another mass communication example; the Pope, the president of the United States, and a Mayan leader were preaching to the masses about the event of the year 2012. I also saw a monk heating a huge bell with a trunk to advised people about the catastrophe they were about to encounter, and that would also be consider a mass communication example. I would consider the Mayan Calendar as a mass communication example too, because it was an instrument that was used by the Mayan civilization and later adopted by the Toltec and Aztecs that foretold a message about: the seasons of the year, constellations, and even the prophecy of the year 2012.
I am skeptical about the event foretold in the movie 2012 because of the previous experience with the year 2000. I am the type of person that will not believe anything unless is supported by a scientific explanation. During the time before the year 2000 I remember people were talking about the end of the world or the Y2K problem with computers which was the one that made sense to me and caused me to pull out of bank all my money from my savings account thinking I was going to lose it. According to the History Channel website, the year 2012 is supposed to be a time where two great things will happen: The earth has a precession at its north axis and the Sun and Earth are symmetrical and are at the center of the Milky Way. These incidents happen only once every 25,000 years. The last time this incident happened, the phenomenon melted the ice age. I think that anything is possible, the documentary I saw in the history channel indicated that the phenomenon of the year 2012 has been a prophecy from different sources in the world including the Mayan Calendar and Nostradamus but nothing has been proven yet, and at this point it could all be superstition therefore I don’t believe it.
The movie 2012 is just a movie about an event that has no reliable sources. It is a compilation of different prophecies which are not proven yet to be true.
Links:
http://www.whowillsurvive2012.com/
http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-mayan.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMdVYmjJyn4
History Channel -2012 Extinction
- Title: Radial Pyramids and Radial-Associated Assemblages of the Central Maya Area
- Author(s): Marvin Cohodas
- Source: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Oct., 1980), pp. 208-223
- Publisher(s): Society of Architectural Historians
- Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/989567
