People believe that this day will be a world changing day. There are many theories by many people about this day. Some say that the world will end, but others say that it will be world changing and not ending.

How did all this 2012 anticipation start you might ask, and it is a very good question actually. The 2012 anticipation started when the modern day civilization discovered that the Mayan Calendar would end one of its great cycles on the 21^st December 2012. The 2012 anticipation did not stop, and many people now believe that there will be a significant event in the year 2012.

Another theory is the Nibiru Collision, which was started by the founder of ZetaTalk. He believe that Nibiru(Planet X) will collide with earth and destroy civilization. Another theory claims that the human beings will ascend to a higher level of existence, and that a very intelligent and civilized alien civilization is watching over the humans, so they can ascend peacefully. This theory however sound just like Arthur C. Clarkes novel “Childhood’s End”.

If we had to put all the 2012 theories together, it would take a lifetime just to search and find all the 2012 theories which are floating around on the internet. Many people have their own individual theories, and some believe that nothing will happen.

The true fact is that we have to have patience and wait for the specific date to pass. No one can be sure of anything and especially not the future. We have to wait and see. However, we do believe that the world will be chaotic in the weeks up to December 21^st 2012. People will commit suicide (as seen before) and we will see a highly increase in criminal activities.

More information about 2012 can be found on this blog: New World Order 2012.

Plato and Mimesis
For Plato, mimesis is the imitation of nature, in his work The Republic, he mentions this concept. In The Republic, he explains it with the literary form poetry, poetry does not show the exact reality and while dealing with poetry we should keep that in mind. In the part ten of Plato’s book, three beds metaphor is given, he gives this example in order to make us figure out the situation more vividly. It is said that there is “idea” of bed made by God, then carpenter makes a bed, and artist paints the picture of the bed, so we are away from truth. Firstly carpenter imitates, then artist imitates the imitation of carpenter, so we are really far away from truth. While imitating, showing the reality becomes less and less with mimesis as while carpenter uses the idea of bed less, artist uses it lesser. The poetry is the same, we all imitate each other and getting away from truth, so poetry does not tell the truth, it is just imitation of something else.

Aristotle and Mimesis
Famous philosopher Aristotle is the student of Plato and Aristotle defines the concept mimesis, too. He defines it as the imitation and perfection of nature. Aristotle’s Poetics is a great literary source and in it he also deals with mimesis. He has not such strong oppositions to poetry as Plato, according to him, imitating is the human nature and human should create something without force. Aristotle accepts that reality and poetry, art are different, but they also have common points, for instance, after watching a tragedy, the audience may say “Thanks God! It is not me!” He identifies this with the concept “catharsis”, and he also mentions and identifies many other literary concepts in his Poetics.

Mimesis in Literature with Aristotle and Plato
Both of these philosophers and writers see literature as imitation, they have controversial ideas; they argue what mimesis is, where it is used and what its function is. Throughout Literary history some people supported Plato while some others supported Aristotle, nowadays thoughts of both of them are effective and ideas are especially used for literary criticism.