Should I be Scared of 2012

The short answer is no; no you shouldn't be concerned about this particular year any more than you would be about any other year. The idea that the year 2012 is predestined to be the year in which the earth is destroyed is complete and utter nonsense. But if that's true then why are so many people, apparently, so concerned about this particular year? The major reason why this date gave us a truly spectacular film and why it gives rise to such concern is because of a lot of ill informed hype. 2012 is another example of the internet's power to "uneducate" people. Now the Internet is without doubt the greatest "potential" educator there has ever been. It puts the worlds libraries in everyone's home. Unfortunately it also allows every ill-informed crackpot in the world access to those same homes. 2012, as everyone who's already seen the film knows, is the year in which the Mayan calendar completes its 5,125 year cycle. According to Mayan legends (please note that word - legends) the end of the cycle signals the end of the World. Now, if this in itself wasn't bad enough, 2012 has also been hijacked by the proponents of Planet X or "Nibiru" as it's also known. Planet X was supposed to unleash untold destruction upon the earth in 2003 but when this didn't happen and 2003 passed without incident "planetxers" searched for another significant date they could hook their theory on. 2012 was only 9 years different and in cosmologcal terms this is a mere blink of an eye so they decided that, hey they must have miscalculated and that Nibiru was actually due in 2012 not 2003.