Post #455611 by Thomas on Fri, May 22, 2009 12:48 PM

Excellent article on this here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2218841/pagenum/all ;
includes this comment, which I like:
"The best cultural explanation I found for this flowering of idiocy said that New Age fads like the Hopi prophecy and 2012 are a kind of cultural colonialism in which white people endow the minorities they have wiped out or repressed with mystical powers made more mysterious by their virtual vanishing."
And much more...