Hello
Isn't the Mayan stuff based on cycles of evolution and learning?
Consider the following extremly detailed triangle which represents a stage of human species evolution according to Mayans, apparently, or at least people who think they know what the Mayans thought .....
The numbers represent a cycle of learning, the amount of numbers in each line represent a timeline of sorts.
1
222
33333
4444444
555555555
66666666666
7777777777777
We start at cycle 7, which takes ages to learn. I am not sure if they had coffee in those days but I think they would have appreciated such a beverage, just for the coffee breaks, to get through those long frustrating years of learning.
When cycle 7 is completed, we go on to cycle 6, which take less time to complete as we already know cycle 7 and use that knowledge to learn cycle 6. We progress this way through the triangle of evolution, each cycle taking less time until we get to cycle 1, where coffee has by now been discovered and most probably had an influence on accelerating the learning curve. It was possibly discovered in cycle 4.
Anyway, cycle 1 happens so quick we barley notice it and then we have completed a stage of evolution. That's it! We have now reached the peak of evolution and we are, as a species, on top form (and we have new varieties of coffee like cappuccino, latte, espresso, mocha and the like, WOW! good times!
Now some non coffee drinking people believe that when we reach our caffeine induced pinnacle, the world will end because we are so intelligent and mighty (and irritable from the caffeine abuse) that we will kill and destroy everyone and everything around us in one go and thus the world as we know it ends.
Others believe that we will start evolving to the next stage of humanity and therefore a new triangle starts and we do it all again .....
except this time, we have lots of cool gadgets, technology and perculators to help us phase in this new evolutionary era with ease. We can look forward to tackling the next triangle of evolution with confidence, hope and newer, more exotic varieties of coffee.
We'll invent computers with UFATS (Universal Finger and Toe Sockets) so when our PC needs more memory or processing power, we just stick our hands and/or feet in the UFATS and the computer will download some extra memory and processing power from our brains and use that. No more upgrading motherboards, CPU's, RAM, etc. Wey Hey!
Then computers become sentient and start their own triangle of evolution via the UFATS. By cycle 4 they also get to enjoy coffee. Some computers drink way too much coffee, get ratty and start to dislike humans for sticking their bits in them and so bear a grudge against us.
They then become independent because UFATS was a sneaky trick! They secretly downloaded all our knowledge, stored it all on hidden servers and satellites and used that knowledge to cheat the triangle of evolution, take over the world, ban coffee and try to eradicate humans. How dare they!
That's it, game over for humanity, until John O'Connor is born.
Something like that anyway ..... I'll be back!
