Well, 2012 is almost over, and to nobody’s great surprise, was not the year in which the world ended. The general response to this non-event was just to carry on, business as usual.
Yet circulating on Facebook was a photo of a grubby child, in tattered clothes, looking with big eyes at the camera, with the caption, ‘I’m not afraid the world will end in 2012: I’m afraid it will carry on with nothing changing.’
