Every Facebook user's biggest fear

I just saw this movie trailer, earlier today. Naturally, my first thought was, yes, to be a "wise guy", of sorts, and crack that it is the biggest fear of any Facebook user. That is, not having any electricity so they couldn't get online.

Enough of the humor.

After that, this seems to be what every Right-Winger/Libertarian/Reactionary/"Ender" seems to think is America's future in the short-term. And of course it is since that Socialist/Commie/Leftist/Radical and, oh, yes, Black man, President Obama is in charge. Right? And women are getting more power, money and authority. That can't be good. And gays. They're gaining equality. You know we're all going to hell when all that happens.

Fascinating.

Not just because it's JJ Abrams but because I think there is a zeitgeist in, at minimum, our nation that is along these lines. That is, that we--the US, at least, if not civilization--is coming to the end. The "big" end. The end of everything.

If you notice, too, at the beginning of the trailer, a plane drops out of the sky rather like what was predicted for all of us at midnight when the clocks and calendars went from 1999 to 2000.

Except, of course, it didn't happen.

Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2070791/; http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&list=PL2B104252E94684C2&src_vid=JwfCRAtkYEI&index=1&v=jWNlS51QYmQ&annotation_id=annotation_341689