A remarkably snarky and uninformed video that presumes as most people seem to that ancient civilizations were “primitive” or inferior. Ok so they pulled a thorn rope through a tongue—and we let thousands of people die every year because they don’t have money to pay for health insurance. Which one sounds more inhumane to you?

Casting aspersions on the Mayans for their lack of scientific expertise is also completely ignorant, as they clearly had knowledge of higher math.

And I’m sorry but its also so freakin’ old already to say that anyone interested in expanding consciousness is a hippie. How stale is that?

I’m not saying that there’s going to be an apocalypse in 2012, but neither are the so-called hippies. Take a moment to explore the reasons why people are fascinated by the Mayans before you outright dismiss an entire culture as being irrelevant for not predicting their own demise.

Well,I wish they’d get it right already.I’ve spent my life savings on hookers and booze three times now since the year 2000.I have now started my Mayan bender,they better be right this time…

Don’t forget Novelty Theory, the companion theory to Moore’s Law positing a doubling of humanity’s recorded information over decreasing blocks of time:  Prehistory to Mesopotamia 10,000 years, Ancient Sumer to Greece 5000 years, Greece to Rome’s fall 2500, Rome to Renaissance 1000 years, Renaissance to Industrial Revolution 500, and so on through the information revolution—geometric increases in the amount of knowledge over decreasing unit times and projected to reach asymptote, or singularity, in the year 2012.

My comment?

I wish I would of said what Bill said. I felt the same way when I saw the blurb, yet when I went to comment, Bill had already beat me to it…

And the purpose of this clip was?

Slow day in reality of the demise of democracy?

No ideas as to how to carve a better future?

Just decided it was a good time to join the mindless drivel so frequently criticized here?