>>17869957
Demonizing Mesoamerica/the pre-columbian Americas and downplaying its achievements in is a civilizational coping mechanism and safety net. Every single state in the Americas today, and arguably the entire modern world when you take into account all the shit that happened as a result of the columbian exchange and Spain getting infinite gold and silver from it, is at least partially built on the subjugation and obliteration of all the societies in two different continents, so we cope by saying that most of them were dumb primitives and the few who weren't were actually not that impressive anyway and also cartoonishly evil so let's not think about it