Brad Meltzer's Decoded: 2012--The Beginning

Well, here we are again with another Columbus Day....I HATE this day!  So, I'm going to spend it making fun of all the hoopla that people made of the whole Maya 2012 end of the world stuff that was going on last year.  This show is a good example of both the super silliness of the whole matter.  On the one hand, they are talking about real issues that exist completely outside of the Maya long count calender, like solar flares.  On the other, it is a great illustration of how white people think of Natives on this continent.  Example:  they talk about the end of the Maya civilization, and in the same sentence they say "if the Mayans where still around, what would they think of this?"  Well guess what (!) THEY ARE STILL AROUND, go ask them!!  So there is this special kind of discrimination that is reserved for native of the North American continent, that of utter disregard and invisibility.  They keep talking about the last page of the Dresden Codex, one of the very few precious Maya sacred books to have been saved from the flames, as end of the earth by flood.  What these people of not getting (and they even show the wrong page as "the last page") is that the flood that is depicted is started by the gods of fire and sun, and the rain god goes overboard to put out that fire.  What we know now, is that the end of the building period of the Maya, what killed that off was way too many ruling elite, far too many working folks and tons of deforestation that caused massive droughts:  sound familiar??  The Maya, if you look at them today, have learned their lesson the hard way.  If they as a people, have anything of significance to offer the rest of the world, it's that lesson!  Not some BS obsession with their long count calendars!  [Note the plural] If you have an Amazon Prime account, you can watch it here or add it to a Blu Ray Watchlist.

This the actual last page of the Dresden Codex

HERE is why we have only got 3 Maya codices left in the world.  Oh yeah, Columbus did all of indigenous people such a favor by getting lost in the Caribbean.....let's all party down!