I've been here all along. Your suggestion that the Mayan city-states have been supplanted by modern drug gangs is interesting but off-point. The OP suggested the Mayans are extinct; they are not. There will be no 2012 "Apocalypse" nor did the Mayans predict one.
When in human history have common folks been lucky enough to avoid exploitation by the brutal and powerful? History is nothing if not repetitive.
No, it isn’t off point. You are trying to apply a dream to a reality.
Everyone knows “apocalypse” means change.
The “violence” associated with the “apocalypse” is completely contextual. Completely Biblical.
6.2 billion dead bodies laying in the streets otta make for some change.
The promise of the Christ is to free YOU of the repetetive nature of “history”...
Put down your I-Phone and gigadigit in the data stream. You were born with that. Tell HIM you need an upgrade.
If yo mama and papa dinna show you that, be 6.2.