The Buzz

For this blog I was supposed to find a recently published article, however, as the apocalypse is not a very common topic, the most recent article I could find was from July 2007. The article is called The Final Days and it was written by Benjamin Anastas. The article is six pages long and I found it on the New York Times website.

In his article Anastas talks about the various predictions made of when the world will end, but he mostly talks about 2012. He talks about an overnight radio show called Coast to Coast where a the host, George Noory, brings in the author of the book Apocalypse 2012 to talk about his book. The author explains that his book is about the Mayan prediction that the world will end on December, 12 2012, he says that it amazes him how much we are all changing. After talking about the radio show Anastas then mentions some of the different interpretations of the end of the world. He notices that virtually everybody expects the world to end in the most horrifying ways, a lot of people think it will be a series of events, not many people think it will be an instantaneous event.

He then talks about the biblical version of the end of the world. He seems to take the book in a literal way, so he appears to be a bit uninformed about the topic. He basically just summarizes what will happen when the day arrives and all the different ways people think it will happen. So this article was not a very good article because it was mostly information i had already read. But it was a well written article nonetheless.

Anastas, Benjamin. "Final Days." The New York Times 1 July 2007. 5 Dec. 2008 .