It’s the perfect storm of crazy. Social media - otherwise known as the collective wisdom of online humanity – has linked Psy’s Gangnam Style to Nostradamus to the Mayan Apocalypse.Take three massively popular phenomena, add a dash of faith, and stir.
Korean pop sensation Psy’s Gangnam Style is about to score 1 billion hits on YouTube (in fact, this could be happening as we speak).Michel de Nostradame – known as Nostradamus – wrote The Prophecies, a collection of predictions in the form of rhyming quatrains in 1555. People believe that they predict almost everything that has happened since, from Hitler to September 11 to Julian Assange’s bid for the Senate*.
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And the Mayan Apocalypse – well, if you don’t know about it yet, the world is about to end. You can catch up on all the details here.
One of Nostradamus’ quatrains is:
From the calm morning, the end will come, when of the dancing horse, the number of circles will be nine.
Let’s go through this step by step.
Calm morning = Korea. A notoriously calm part of the world. Which has mornings. Pretty much every day, in fact.
The end will come = December 21, the doomsday date predicted in an ancient Mayan calendar.
The dancing horse = Psy’s galloping groove.
The number of circles will be nine = the number of zeroes in one billion, the number of hits Psy’s Gangnam style will soon have. If it wasn’t already so hackneyed, you’d say: Mind. Blowing.
If all this is true, then it means we all have just seven days (one week from now) remaining.
