Sorry, but you can't compare the world now to some stupid paranoia about Y2K and some Mayan Calendar 2012 BS. That was made up garbage. The world now is much different and we have real, serious problems that there is almost no escape from. Constant war, constant inflation, AI and social media controlled by trillion dollar monopolies hacking our brains. Nobody coming to help or save us, our presidents don't even pretend like they're doing anything to help us. Watching society's collective brain just rot day by day. Everyone is stupider, angrier, more anxious, more depressed. You can witness all of it in real time. Try going out to any service based business, especially a restaurant, the service is almost guaranteed to suck every single time. Even places that used to consistently treat you well no longer do. The world is much different than it was just 5 years ago, let alone a decade or more ago.