Euro, soon to be a Zeuro. Europe has long been infected with the disease which first appeared with some force in the mid 19^th century from the revolutionary slogans of 1848 to the mindlessness of Nietzsche's sad little writings which attempted to create 'supermen' out of a culture which was becoming socialist. All people, cultures, ideas and nations are equal. Fairness means everyone is the same. Equality is where all people and states are equally poor and miserable. Any 'gaps' in wealth, productivity, talent or initiative must be 'reduced' by government. If you try hard you are a criminally liable idiot, a threat to the state. Life is a large vacation punctuated by periods of unproductive, unsatisfying labour. The tenets of Christian civilization – rationality, gratitude, humility, hard-work, the reduction of the ego, the Golden Rule – are all relics of superstition and stupidity. Narcissism, self-absorption, 'free' benefits, TV and cults are the coveted idols of sophistication.

When your society is built upon the foundations of Rousseau and modern cultural Marxism it is bound to fail. When a currency is created to 'hide the decline', and allow governments more unfettered access to printed money currency, regulations, taxation, and power, the end is only a matter of time. Of course European 'leaders' now 'demand' a fiscal union. That is after all the whole point of the Euro exercise. Create a monetary disaster which implodes fiscal reality, and then offer 'solutions' which involve more government centralization and unfettered power.

The Mayan prediction that December 21 2012 will herald the end of the world, might only be about Europe. Europeans, or at least their elite, are fond of neolithic fetishes after all [Globaloneywarming, hating the human, mindless TV, Islam etc.]. Maybe the Mayans were predicting the Mayanization of Europe? Europe reduced to a post-war, or post-Euro sea of ashes and devastation. Maudlin the investment-guru writing on the Zeuro-zone. It elicits a chuckle or two:   

“After much deliberation, I have come to this astounding insight: The Mayan academics who created the code were not in fact astronomers or even astrologers. No, it is clear they were another breed of even more dubious forecasters, called economists. Once you approach the glyphs with that understanding, it becomes clear they are not predicting the end of the world, merely the end of Europe. One symbol clearly shows the Greek flag dipping to the ground. Another depicts the Italian flag with its wheels coming off. Oh, and you don't even want to know what they have prognosticated for the French.” 

Maybe the star-gazing Mayans had insight into the black magic produced by the insemination of socialism, with cultural Marxism. It is an ugly beast indeed. Why is the Zeuro-zone bankrupt? 3 easy reasons:

“There are three main problems in Europe. The first is that most of the banks are massively insolvent, because they have 30 times their capital invested in the second problem, which is the sovereign debt of countries that are going to have trouble paying that debt. If the banks have to mark down the debt to what its real value is – or to what it will soon be – they will be bankrupt on a scale that makes 2008 look like a waltz in the park.

....For most of the past two years, European leaders have tried to deal with the problems as though they were short-term liquidity problems: "If we just find the money to buy some more Greek bonds, then Greece can figure out how to solve its problems and then pay us back. Given enough time, the problem can get solved."

They have now arrived at the understanding that it this not a short-term problem. Rather, it's a solvency problem of the various governments, which of course creates a solvency problem for their banks. They are now addressing the problem of solvency and providing capital until such time as certain countries can get their budgets under control and the bond market sees fit to provide the capital they need.”

Solvency crises don't magically disappear because the Mandarins running Europe yawn over their sumptuous banquets that they will 'do everything' they can to save the Zeuro, before devouring their second main course and running back to their palaces post digestion. Not even the divine magic hand of the 'Great Man' Obama can wave away the ills of Europe. The Zeuro project was always a political-social project. The Euro's destruction is however, an opportunity to impose more 'union' including the eradication of fiscal and the remaining political independence of the 27 nation states that make up the bloc.

I don't see what the average person gets from all of this. The elite get an empire – impoverished, riven by divisions and corruption; infiltrated by Islam or 'Islamism' if you prefer; unproductive, ageing, culturally and fiscally bankrupt and decrepit. But the new Mayan elite get the power, based on their loyal union elite and governmental-working elite. But for the average person not connected to the unions and the neo-politburo, it is hard to fathom what they get from the Euro socialist-Marxist experiment. Peace ? Good bread ? Unlimited time off ? Penury ? A stultified coddled life ? Thought police ? No freedom ? The eradication of their savings ? A low standard of living ? The cults of Islam and GlobalWarming? This seems to be a pretty lousy trade-off. You get peace for an existence unworthy of the name.

Or maybe the Euros are simply trading in reality for the culture of the Maya. Shamans and priests running the society. Everyone afraid, superstitious, uneducated, and supine. Science and rationality non-existent. The earth and celestial cults erasing cognition. Freedom unheard of. Sacrifices made daily to the elite's 'gods' including the human. Maybe this is what Europe wants – a return to the Mayan neolithic. And maybe that is what the December 21 2012 prediction is really about. Europe imploding and becoming Mayan.