--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > From Salon.com: > > > > Maya in the Thunderdome > > > > ************ > > Gibson is a nutcase "Christian" bigot, no doubt about that, and the > cultural timeline of the movie is, of course, not historical fact, > but the fact is, the Maya were a pushover for the Spanish because of > the low level of life they lived at. The human sacrifice and other > brutalities were an indication of how brutal and stupid that culture > had become, and it is the reason that the indigenous peoples of the > Americas were overcome by a somewhat less brutal culture. Maharishi > has said that cruelty arises from lack of progress, and the Mayas > were cruel, even more cruel than the beastly Europeans. > > That guy from a country east of Sweden recently posted here about how > the eastofswedians repulsed the invasion of the Russians in 1938-9. > Any country, even a small one, can repel even a much larger one if it > is coherent enough. The fact that a couple hundred Spanish took over > the Americas is an indication of the lack of coherence in indigenous > society.
Read the whole piece. There's a lot more to it than that. >
