Why does every single generation think they are living in the End Times?

[MagetheEntertainer]

Well if the end of the world... then I will massively max out my credit cards... ok, got to go shopping...

Whats funny in kind of a fucked up way is that people actually do this, I used to go to school with a girl who put like 2k dollars on her parents credit cards in December 2012 cause she thought the world was gonna end and she wanted to party xD