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Rating: Try to send an unpopular message without being misunderstood. Roberto Giacobbo's goal in the book "2012: the end of the world?" immediately poses a condition for reflection. In such a shocking and alienating title, what should provoke thought is precisely that question mark at the end of the sentence, which renders unknown, enigmatic, what is already dark and mysterious. The themes addressed are many, too many to be described even in a simple review, from the 'Maya' prophecies to those of St. Malachy, with an eye on current catastrophist theories and another on the mysticism potentially sparked, for example, by dark crystal skulls presumably of unknown origin.
I will not set limits or judgments on this book; I will not influence those who haven't read it or those who already have. Surely, Giacobbo knows how to write for everyone and knows he can rely on a self-created persona that places him almost as the mouthpiece of truth to the average Italian audience regarding the world that I would dare generalize as that of mysticism and occultism (if one also considers other works like the best-seller on the Templars, the adjectives are fitting).
To truly grasp the book's essence, one must embark on this journey (a bit short, about 200 pages) without prejudices and with the sole desire to quench one's curiosity, a curiosity that is fueled by our own conscience through questions and queries on various topics related to a hypothetical 'end', from why there is such a heavy insistence on believing in a people who prioritized the study of astronomy and math over true progressive and social development (many human sacrifices in honor of supposed cosmic Gods), to why a reversal of the magnetic poles, which is already underway, could be crucial as a crossroads for an astrophysical, geophysical, and even spiritual change.
Perhaps because man has always sought, or rather hoped for, a positive change that would place us in a new, unknown, and thus fascinating dimension. It matters little, then, about the mysterious Palenque slab, why the body of the Sphinx is eroded by the action of copious rains (in Egypt?) while the head is not, and in turn, the existence of planet X, the pyramids, time travel, and Nostradamus (yes, he never fails to appear). What a simple book, written in almost elementary language, manages to capture in a single reading is the 'smell of the void' of the unknown and the potentially apocalyptic; potentially, because truth be told, the Maya did not speak of meteorites or explosions of various volcanoes. It is modern catastrophist theories that blind today's frenetic society, exploiting, in my personal opinion, the so-called 'confusion theory'; presenting various more or less probable possibilities does nothing but dull the interest in a theme that is objectively serious and should be considered, trying to drive the truth as far away as possible.
Giacobbo first and foremost sets the objectivity of needing to be aware of the hypotheses and messages of the time, but trying to leave the most open interpretation to the reader, without closing in on more or less improbable or crazy theories. "2012: the end of the world?", as the author said, this book will no longer be needed on December 22, 2012, just as this simple review will neither. Meanwhile, I continue to doze with the first eponymous album of '30 Seconds To Mars,' just to stay relevant to the theme discussed.
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