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2023-09-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Classic Maya collapse
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Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ]  Top
 File under: Mob Rule 

#1 Covid, climate change plus king Brandon?
Posted by Mercutio 2023-09-08 07:57||   2023-09-08 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Hypothesized. No one was keeping good records of what was going down. Keep in mind, its modern interpretations of what happened, salted by the bias of those doing the analysis.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-09-08 08:05||   2023-09-08 08:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Those who ignore the past are destined to repeat it. Those who choose to dismiss that connection will not be exempted.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-08 08:08||   2023-09-08 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 MMGW - Mayan Made Global Warming
Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-09-08 08:49||   2023-09-08 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Generally speaking, when a near stone age society collapses, nobody bothers to take notes, cause that would mean engraving it in stone.
The only people who could leave a record aren't going to say something like "the king screwed up" because they work for the king, and they know he does things like rip somebody's heart out when he gets upset.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-09-08 09:15||   2023-09-08 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 they know he does things like rip somebody's heart out when he gets upset

Well...yeah. There is that.
Posted by Frank G 2023-09-08 10:51||   2023-09-08 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Is that like drowning after falling off your paddleboard at night?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-09-08 14:45||   2023-09-08 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 They voted for Democrats.
Posted by Javiter Dark Lord of the Faith7963 2023-09-08 15:49||   2023-09-08 15:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Foreign Invasion - see Migrants
Collapse of Trade Routes - see Long Haul Truckers
Epidemic Diseases - See COVID, et. al.
Drought - see Weather

"Psychologist Julian Jaynes suggested that the collapse was due to a failure in the social control systems of religion and political authority, due to increasing socioeconomic complexity that overwhelmed the power of traditional rituals and the king's authority to compel obedience."

see Cancel Police
Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-08 17:41||   2023-09-08 17:41|| Front Page Top

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