[cld51860]

When the movie Apocalypto came out, I feigned absolute shock at how brutal indigenous people were to one another, to a lib at work. She was oblivious to the sarcasm, however and very sagely shook her had with a very saddy face on her mug.

[fr_freak]

When the movie Apocalypto came out, I feigned absolute shock at how brutal indigenous people were to one another, to a lib at work.

I'm too lazy to try to websearch a source right now, but I recently read an article about Cortez's conquest of the Aztecs, where he encountered some of the Aztec "culture" afterwords and found it so disgusting and demonic that he deliberately tried to wipe any record of it off the face of the earth. Apparently, there was some very intense glorification of human sacrifice and the like within their "sacred" areas.

[firebrand]

The saddest scene in that movie is when the sensitive guy who is constantly made fun of by his own tribe is shown to be ignorant of how you make babies, because everyone conspired to tell him the wrong thing. Everyone is laughing their head off, and the last shot of the scene is of . . .

. . . the chief also laughing.

An entire tribe of cads and bullies but worst of all: no justice.

It gets worse.

But then better, at the end. Guess who arrives.