Those who get a thrill from pondering the Mayan prediction that the world will end in 2012 don’t know what the Mayans thought, writes David Hart in the “On the Square” article for today. After explaining why — which is quite interesting in itself — he examines what this taste for apocalypse says about us, about how we see the world and what we want from it, in The Appeal of a World Scattered and Scorched .
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