Paródia do Fim do Mundo

O College Humor fez um vídeo com uma versão alterada da música “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” dos R.E.M. Trata-se basicamente de uma paródia à paranóia que alimenta a indústria do fim do mundo. E indústria é mesmo a palavra certa, não só devido à enorme quantidade de profecias que andam por aí, como também devido ao dinheiro gerado à custa dos mais ingénuos. Livros, palestras, amuletos e cursos de sobrevivência são apenas alguns exemplos das fontes de rendimento dos profetas da desgraça.

Gostei particularmente dos últimos versos “Pode ser o fim do mundo como o conhecemos (acabei de ler isso num blog), pode ser o fim do mundo como o conhecemos (acabei de ver um link no Digg), pode ser o fim do mundo como o conhecemos (o Twitter disse por isso está certo)”. Em apenas três frases conseguiram explicar a razão pela qual a paranóia do fim do mundo atingiu proporções epidémicas. Por muito bom que seja o Google, os seus algoritmos ainda não conseguem distinguir entre factos e mentiras, realidade e imaginação. Qualquer um pode escrever aquilo que quiser na Internet. É necessário cultivar pensamento crítico e conhecimentos básicos de ciência para aprender a separar o trigo do joio. Caso contrário, corre-se o risco de perder tempo, dinheiro, a própria vida e possivelmente a sanidade mental…

Letra completa:

Oh, great, the flu will soon mutate.

Climate change and Y2K,

Remain calm, don’t be afraid

Too many human beings out of water on earth.

National IDS are the mark of the beast.

Saw a link to a thing.

What, no God?

The rapture is now here and we’re right this time!

Sun loses fire, earth just bursting into flames.

Evil scientists for hire, hiding in plain sight.

AI’s getting smarter in a hurry, you should worry.

It’ll enslave us.

Blog by blog the bloggers baffled crapped their pants.

Look at the low plane.

We’re done!

Big hole,

Ozone,

Huge depletion,

UVB.

It’s too late to save ourselves!

Save the earth.

Cell phones, destroyed bees, now the plants can’t breed.

At least you can’t get anthrax from someone coughing right? …Right.

Wikipedia says that it’s a powder and quite white (right?).

Pretty sure that’s right.

Could be the end of the world as we know it.

Might be the end of the world as we know it.

Could be the end of the world as we know it.

On channel nine.

Suvs, Peak Oil, Diseases caught on foreign soil.

Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Collided into Nibiru.

Gay people marrying, teaching, adopting made all our kids turn gay.

Bringing upon judgement day.

Terrorists are terroizing.

Calm Down! Calm Down!

All the launched nukes nuked.

Uh-oh the end is here, have no fear.

Let’s have a last beer.

The prophecies, prophecies, the prophecies are right.

Nine-point-seven earthquake.

Large hadron collider.

The end’s in sight!

Could be the end of the world as we know it.

Might be the end of the world as we know it.

Could be the end of the world as we know it.

On channel nine.

The polar caps began to melt

Destroying all the ocean shelves.

It’s freezing over in hell.

Two Thousand Twelve!

A crazy hobo ranting bible code and heaven’s gate.

Antichrist, small pox, dirty bombs, sars!

Wait a second… experts saying nevermind.

Right? …Right.

Could be the end of the world as we know it.

(I just read it on a blog)

Might be the end of the world as we know it.

(I just saw a link on Digg)

Could be the end of the world as we know it.

(Twitter said it so it’s right)

Tonight on nine.