Irvy wrote:
I've been reading a lot about 2012 lately, so it's of no big surprise that I had a dream where my subconscious tied a lot of what I've been thinking about together.
In the dream, something did happen on 21 Dec 2012, and whatever it was had the effect of shutting down all the tv signals, radio signals, mobile phone networks, etc, creating a state of silence around the world. It turned out that (in the dream!) all those signals had been creating a suppression field around the world, blocking our own brain waves from functioning perfectly. Once that field was no longer there, all the autistic people in the world "switched on" and created a telepathic network that allowed the instant transfer of thoughts and knowledge. Basically, we became a big internet, and all of those autistic "special interests", all that memorised data became accessible by any autistic person, wherever they were.
It was a dream, but I like it's implications. The Bible does say that the meek will inherit the Earth, and I've seen many people reference that verse when talking about autists, so I think it would be cool if that was what was going to happen in 2012.
Considering the general intellectual level of the posts on the internet an avalanche of that level of thought on the human race would be comparable to the cosmological disaster that destroyed the dinosaurs. The prediction that the meek will inherit the Earth is probably right on in that the bacteria are about the meekest active life forms and most likely to survive the major ecological disasters enthusiastically engendered by humanity. It may be a long struggle for multicelled forms to re-occur but we are quite a ways from the heat death of the universe and nature is very patient. If nothing else, some sort of disaster on December 21 will put a major kink in Christmas shopping.