SNow, in a way I agree with you. It bother me the whole "tee-hee, nothing is gonna happen". Look at what happened since 2000. A lot of things. It ain't going well. We may as well be crumbling as civilization, so I guess to make fun of Mayans is a way to deal with what we do know deep inside. That we are on the wrong track, that we do have problem.

If things are that swell, then why there is need for communities like this. 25% of Americans have problem diagnosable by DSM, the stats say. So quarter of Americans is troubled. Here in Europe we have troubles too, look how much we drink and all. We are not happy bunch, here in West. We done many things wrong and maybe now we are bunch of lost souls. It did not make us happy in long term..........

so yeah, maybe we should learn from others. And we can only hope nothing is going to happen to shake our collective consciousness to the core... but it seems it might be the only thing to move us.