What Was "Apocalypto" Really About?

I talked to a guy on the phone I have not seen in three years today. It was about some new work I might have starting next month.

The last time I saw this guy was over lunch some three years ago, I was in fine form. Somebody managed to wind me up talking about immigration into the U.S. and I went into one of my semi-fugue states where I just did this super rapid super verbose little monologue schtick thing I do once in a while when I've had a good night's sleep and a decent meal. I was firing on all cylinders and honestly half the crap I was saying I barely understood myself it came out so rapid fire. Some people at the lunch table were staring at me while I was talking as if I had suddenly sprouted tentacles and a second head like one's of John Carpenter's monsters in THE THING.

Anyway, the general thrust of my little speech over a club sandwich was that Australians do not understand the general character of people from other countries. Wherever they look they simply project images of themselves onto others ... others who are in fact so utterly alien and different from them that they would probably crap in their pants if they really understood their perspective. I focused mainly on the innate qualities of the people of Latin America, using my salad fork to illustrate how Mayan priests slashed the hearts from up to 40,000 captives a day on their pyramids to placate the Sun God, then threw the decapitated bodies down the steps where they were caught by the supplicants at the bottom and cannibalized on the spot, often without cooking the "meat." Several people were shaking their heads. Nobody had ever talked about anything like this in college. Weren't the Mayans those people who played Rollerball or something and wore colorful head ornaments?

When I finished breathlessly and looked up, I was getting that look I have seen before from twenty or so of my coworkers. They basically thought I was mad. Maybe I would have agreed with them. I tried to laugh it off and just finished with, "Anyway, you can imagine people capable of living like this probably would not be all that biologically similar to you and I. Just the fact they could live these lives, institutionalize this kind of horror to the extent it was no more unusual to them than you and I getting an extra large Coke at 7-11. They just would not be the same kinds of humans we are." Then I quieted down and finished my club sandwich, staring at my plate and yes, a bit embarrassed. I had let a bit of my Vault-Co enthusiasm leak out of my overheated brain in front of people I work with which I tried to always avoid.

The poor Aussies hadn't the slightest clue of what in the hell I was talking about. Nothing, zip, nada. They didn't get it at all. Of course, they wouldn't!

So three years later, a guy who was at that table calls me over an unrelated matter. He asks how I am doing, tells me he misses my great rants sometimes.

He says he saw Apocalypto, Mel Gibson's flick. I had only seen it myself a couple weeks ago.

"I hope you won't take this the wrong way," he said, "but it wasn't until I saw that movie it clicked for me what in the hell you were talking about that day. That movie was one of the scariest, most horrific things I think I have ever seen. The freakin' Mayans, if they were anything like portrayed in that movie, must've been positively demonic creatures. I never gave this kind of thing much thought until I saw that film." He then paused for a moment, swallowed, then continued. "Just being blunt, frankly 1200 years ain't enough distance between me and the descendants of the people in that film. That guy Jaguar Paw wasn't a bad sort, I liked him. But the goddamn Mayans, if they really went around capturing other tribes for the express purpose of religious sacrifice .... sheese, man, that's just barbaric. That's savage and weird stuff, there. If multiculturalism is a good thing, then what about Mayan culture? Or African voodoo?"

He paused a little again. I could hear a bit of ambient noise over the phone, it almost sounded like voices whispering. "Really, man, that film scared the hell out of me. Maybe some cultures shouldn't be celebrated at all, compared with what we got here."

Hmm. See. People will think. Eventually. The question is, will it really matter anymore when they get around to doing it? I don't think it will matter by that time. It won't matter at all.

Ready To Go Through The Looking Glass?

You may think we post some pretty far out stuff on Vault-Co. Sometimes we do. Everything is relative. The truth is, most of the stuff we post here is nearly as plain as the nose on a man's face. It only sounds weird to a person who reads and writes at a 2nd/3rd grade level and has spent the past thirty years of their life deriving most of their information about the universe from watching TV. There are a lot of people, numbered mainly amongst those who read, write and think well, that wouldn't be much surprised by anything that was ever posted up here. The problem is there aren't many people like that left in the world.

This is going to sound far-out. You need to read it and think about it. It may very well answer an awful lot of questions about life, the universe and everything. Forget about all the partisan squabbling, ethnic nepotism and other petty corruptions that infest the festering ruins of what was once Western civilization.

What if we were to present a kind of unified theory of decay that explained the primary reason that all societies decline and collapse, usually within two centuries of being founded? What if there was a common link that neatly wrapped up the primary principle that governs the decline of human societies? I think recently a lot of people have started to figure it out. I personally may have been just another idiot chopping at the branches of evil, I think this new paradigm may be hacking at the root.

What if I told you that the end-to-end history of a society was a curve describing one single graduated change, a delta that passed through all the points that we routinely list as symptomatic of failing societies? What if there was a common meme that explained the entire thing in one neat sentence?

Big enough buildup? Ready yet? Here we go.

THE DECLINE OF CIVILIZATIONS IS BEST SUMMARIZED AS THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE FOUNDERS OF A CIVILIZATION, WHO ARE SINCERE AND SINGLEMINDED, ARE GRADUALLY REPLACED IN THE PRIMARY INSTITUTIONS BY PSYCHOPATHS AND SOCIOPATHS, WHO ARE NEVER SINCERE AND NEVER OF ONE MIND. THE DECAY OF A SOCIETY IS MEASURED BY IT'S MIGRATION FROM HONEST AND STRAIGHT MINDS INTO THE CONTROL OF THOSE WHO ARE AMBIGUOUS AND INFINITELY TWISTED.

Yes, sometimes this migration isn't even of the same ethnic group that founded a civilization. Often the psychopaths of one ethnic group will prey on another in the midst of it's decline by replacing them slowly through a process of elimination. In other societies, psychopaths from the same gene pool will irregardless betray their own people - because ultimately a psychopath has no allegiances to anyone, of any kin group. The only good for such a man/woman is what is good for them.

The process by which psychopaths and sociopaths gradually come to replace real humans throughout institutions is properly called the study of pathocracy. Sometimes pathocracies claim to be freedom loving, but most of the time they masquerade under socialist and marxist umbrellas of supposedly altruist motives. The pathocracy is essentially a crude affair tied to the simple biology of dominance that can be seen in any tribe of primates. It may have a thousand different forms, all of them designed to one end - to control others, foremost their money/resources / property, followed by their minds and even perceptions. Socialism is a pathocracy by it's very nature, despite it being a response by psychopaths to cure ills that they themselves manufactured to justify socialism to begin with.

A society has not reached the final stage of pathocracy until even people born genetically normal or mentally healthy are themselves compelled to behave in psychopathic or sociopathic fashion in order to survive in a civilization ruled by them. In other words, where at long last, honesty is the worst policy of them all. Such a society cannot last long by it's very nature, no matter how brutal. It simple does not have the prerequisites to remain stable before disintegrating into internal power struggles and final chaos.

You Lose The War In Your Head First (2)

Your feet betray you, cowards, your words mean nothing to me

... we are getting all of these people here in Australia and each and every one of them, to a man, looks like that leader of the fleeing tribe in Mel Gibson's APOCALYPTO ... they SMELL OF FEAR. NOTHING LESS THAN RAW TERROR.

I nod my head politely when they explain the reason they migrated out was because of the weather or the transit system or the loss of civility.

Right.

You can see the fear in their faces. It's an animal that is being hounded by a pack of dogs intent on bringing it down.

You Lose The War In Your Head First

Antonio Gramsci was right. Fix their heads so they couldn't even fight back if they wanted to, then you destroy them. Everything is just post-mortem after you train them to hate themselves. You have to screw their minds up so badly they can't see anything that is not first passed through the lens of Marxism, after which they are their own worst enemy.

Blithering Madness - "Stealing Energy" From The Sun?

Holy cow, these nuts are so far off their gourd they can't stop drooling long enough to pull up their pants. Remember, a short time ago talk like this would make you eligible for a permanent program of electroshock and lithium syrup.

All of this pretend science is what you do when it dawns on you three years into your degree that you have no aptitude for science and probably shouldn't even be taking it as your major. It's the consolation prize for edjumificated people who will never have the actual discipline to practice real science. Get published with this crap nowadays, get another grant, goof off for four years until the money starts to run out. It beats honest work.

Albert Gore Is A Liar and His Father Was A Convicted Communist Spy

Al Gore was born into disrepute and shame and grew up to be a bigger bastard than his own father. He's a man who never learned a trade. He represents what happens to people who never develop an enthusiasm for anything other than themselves. Swindling and confidence schemes are the resort of men who have never known an honest living.

Multikult Bolshevist Finally Finds the Strength To Do The Right Thing

Decades of lies about the horror in Africa before and after apartheid. Decades of deliberately keeping the public from finding out any real news from Africa. "It doesn't exist, it escaped into happy fairy land" was her job ever since apartheid ended, making sure the common man never found out the truth about the world and about himself and his nation. "They're all dancing with the Smurfs in a wonderful cotton candy garden built by the teletubbies!"

Actually, they were making flaming tire necklaces for one another and eating human flesh in a nightmarish landscape that might have stepped out of a Hieronymous Bosch painting.

She probably just couldn't take the lies anymore. She sought to silence her own corruption by drowning it with seawater. Likely the noblest thing she ever did in her miserable life.

She was paid her thirty pieces of silver when she was alive and now she has her reward in the outer darkness of hell. Thus always to traitors to their own nations.

Brit Discovers Quality Vault Under Garden

Boy, this guy got a bargain. The government would have spent a tidy sum on the concrete that went into this place.

Why post any more news at Vault-Co?

Why bother? Everything we have ever predicted since 1997 has come true, with the exception of a nuclear war starting in the Middle East in late 2006. Otherwise, our batting average has made us redundant.

Remember when Vault-Co ranted about WW3 being fought by killer robots? Way, way back in 2002, in fact, we started harping on this theme. We repeatedly said that Skynet would be up and running very shortly. In what sounded like the wild ravings of schizophrenia, we claimed new technology would soon give birth to the real innovation in "mechanized" warfare.

Terminator was a prophetic film

Gotta love them security killbots

What about the new arms race? A Vault-Co perennial since 1998 or thereabouts, ad nauseum. We were beating those drums back when it was the equivalent of believing in hollow earth theories. Remember how we used to skewer Francis Fukiyama and his dreamboat parade featuring "the end of history?" It is the majority held meme which sounds ludicrous now.

Germany Fears New Atomic Age

A whole new generation of nuclear escalation begins ... but not for long

Yawn. We bore ourselves. There's prophetic, predictive and anticipatory ideas on Vault-Co going back ten years when the highest paid pundits at CNN weren't within a country mile of the way the real future was shaping up. Vault-Co alone got it even 50% right.