Now unfortunately has not been specified

First, the day of the year, in a small town in Arkansas, the fall of a few hundreds of dead birds - fact surprising, it goes without saying, for the inhabitants of Beebe, but trivial for ornithologists, and without mystery after Fireworks and difficult weather conditions. Shortly after, in Maryland, it was a few thousands of fish corpses floated to the surface of the water. Situation any trivial sum, there still. January 4, Pointe Coupée, in Louisiana, other birds litter the ground. These facts, without interest for themselves, were previously that the locals and the local pub conversations.

Today, in a few hours to a few thousand emails, blogs, tweets, SMS and MMS, we learn that birds also die Sweden, Australia, jellyfish also fish! Assumed as soon as all form a single story, in turn linked (to the choice...) to secret military experiments, aliens, intense pollution, obvious clues that the end of the world is near. Indeed, everyone knows or should know, she is announced by the Maya for December 21, 2012. Now, unfortunately, has not been specified.

"I marvel that men gifted intelligence and talent can spoil their eloquence and abuse to persuade us of such rubbish", wrote Spinoza, in October 1674, his friend Hugo Boxel. He believed in the spectra and assommait Spinoza references to multiple authors, honourably known, sharing his belief. In the Netherlands of the Classical Age, it may be sufficient to the philosopher to write to the goose feather: "all those who know how to measure the effects of the imaginings and passions on mortals must laugh at such things." We are in a quite different situation.

One reason that users are not all known long, equipped with "intelligence and talent." On the contrary, often the worst ignorance, the most extreme self-delusions give free course. This is why it is not certain that the heart to laugh. Of course, can be fun and naive which scrutinize the Bible and the apocalypses, while he always arrived, for thousand natural causes, that groups of birds or schools of fish suffer, and that the world has never ceased to turn.

Soon enough, the smile freezes in considering the power to injure, on billions of beings human, these prophecies of Bazaar. Their insistence, their proliferation, their permanent resurgence could eventually corrode the thought. Of course, these birds that will be forgotten tomorrow, immediately replaced by other signs, revealing their turn to new close supposed cataclysms. Obviously, on December 22, 2012 will one day, a day after the end of the world as has already there dozens in the history of the millénarismes of all kinds.

The thing to fear, is that thicken and to spread the mud will eventually overwhelm both minds that we hear almost the voice of reason. That we loose the methodical doubt of science. That no one understands more laughter philosophers. Or if many people that they would remain powerless to the inexorable rise of filthy beliefs. Completely exclude the risk would be great, unsafe and is naive. On the ground, it would be dead the OWL of Minerva. At the time, this would be the end of a world.

To avoid it, probably should be arming us of a great indifference, a form of insensitivity to ambient stupidity. Inventing the serenity in electronic cyclones. Disconnect mentally. Become a tight black tide. This could be the path of an antidote for digital irrational time between mental hygiene and new spiritual exercises.