For the record, the real problem here isn’t Camping and his inane suggestions that the world was supposed to come to an end last weekend. The real problem isn’t that his source data for his predictions is a book that’s been translated through more languages than he has wrinkles. The real problem isn’t even that he owns a radio station making any kind of message like his highly questionable in terms of motive. No, the real problem is that I am even aware of this man’s existence.
That news media would spend so much time and effort covering this story is a clear indication that the system has failed and needs to be reset. At least when Y2K happened there was a real global technological problem being dealt with and it was just rendered in a magnitude far greater than the actual events supported. What we have here is so far from newsworthy that it’s only a matter of time before we’re reading credible reports that the obesity epidemic is actually good for the environment because the localization of mass in first-world countries will prevent dangerous gravity leaks that could send the Earth spiralling out of orbit.
Now to be fair, we were able to convert this waste of microwaves into a comic with dinosaurs in it. I suppose that’s pretty awesome. I mean, who doesn’t love talking velociraptors with poor listening skills, right?
Ja.