“The Mayan Apocalypse and Other Eurocentric Fantasies”, Fathertheo, December 20, 2012:
“In Stargate & the 7 Rules of European Progress, I presented the following quote from JM Blaut:
Since Europe is advanced and non-Europe is backward, any ideas that diffuse into Europe must be ancient, savage, atavistic, uncivilized, evil—black magic, vampires, plagues, “the bogeyman,” and the like.
He continued on to say, although European culture and rationality flows out of Europe into non-Europe,
conversely, there is the possibility that these ancient, atavistic, etc., traits will counterdiffuse back into the civilized core, in the form of ancient, magical, evil things like black magic, Dracula, etc. (From The Colonizer’s Model of the World, pp. 15-16.)
Yup, sounds just like the Mayan Apocalypse, doesn’t it? The Mayan Apocalypse is just the latest of European fads fetishizing the Aboriginal Other for its special “spiritual” qualities, meaning ancient, atavistic, non-rational, non-scientific. It’s a dreamcatcher for your calendar……”
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