Dutch Rubes Prepare for Apocalypse
Link: Dutch prepare for Maya apocalypse
On December 21 2012, the “Long Count” calendar of the Maya people clicks over to year zero, marking the end of a 5,000-year era.
Belying their country’s rational and laid back image, thousands of Dutch people are convinced the date coincides with a world catastrophe, the Volkskrant newspaper reports.
Petra Faile and her husband have bought a life raft and other survival equipment in preparation for Armageddon.
“In another four years it will all be over,” she said.
“You know maybe it’s really not that bad that the Netherlands will be destroyed. I don’t like it here any more.”
Mrs Faile said she was concerned that immigration was pushing the Netherlands, a low lying country protected by dikes and sea walls, beneath the waves.
“They keep letting people in. And then we have to build more houses, which makes the Netherlands even heavier. The country will sink even lower, which will make the flooding worse,” she said.
This is one of those superstitions that actually make me happy because it causes rubes to take random actions that I can then capitalize upon. I’ve always wanted to own a second home in that part of the world and with thousands of moronic xenophobes now giving up their homes because of a Mayan (aka Mexican! Oh the irony!) prophecy, I’m now looking to beat the U.S. home mortgage crisis by picking up a nice cottage in Amsterdam. Economic Darwinism at work!
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