Mayans

I can't help but revisit the topic of the Mayans and their decline and eventual dissapearance. It seems amazing to me that they had technological innovations that had to be similar to ours today. When you look at the information and structures of their architecture, they had things such as perfect alignment with stars, could understand and produce mirages from the sun, and a full fledged accurate calendar. Additionally, they were achieving mathamatical calculations, studies on astronomy, producing irrigation systems, and a full fledged literature system and alphabet. How could they have had the ability to do such things so long ago? And why can't we figure out how they did it? Most importantly, what caused their civilization to collapse, and where did they "walk away" to? So many questions that i would love to be answered. If they were capable of having a thriving civilization with impressive technological advancements and collapsed, is this a mirror image of what will happen to us???
I do believe we need to find a middle ground between Takers and Leavers. Invent a middle ground combining and rising above both. Human kind has found ,everytime, ways to dig themselves out of rutts. I have faith that humans can do it again. Additionally, civilization needs to start investing their money in things that are more dependable such as renewable energy sources. I believe once the mindset of civilization as a whole gets a real grasp on the concept of the world being destroyed and comming to an end, then we will reach our best. We will find a way to rise above and invent means to survive. We, unlike the Mayans, have nowhere to "walk away" to. There is not much of this world that has not been taken over by modern day activists and humans. We cannot just give up what we have built and walk away... We must find a new means to survival that is more in sync with mother culture. Maybe the Mayans were telling us something. Perhaps we need to pay more attention to that civilization and we could learn a few things. Just some food for thought.