They romanticize or vilify the time too much. Often the tendency is to romanticize the time and create a utopia, or to suggest there was no sensibility and it was purely a survival of the fittest. What is probably closer to the truth is some people like us were relatively peaceful and pleasant people, and some werent.
(Marco Antonio Argueta, center left, and Richard Can, center right, star in “Apocalypto”). (Andrew Cooper / Icon Distribution)
