"It's an era. We are lucky to see how it ends," says wood carver Santos Esteban in Yaxuna, a sleepy village of fewer than 700 Mayans, located in a territory that once belonged to the ancient kingdom founded around 2000 B.C." From an article on cnn.com
The Mayan Calendar is complicated and I am not going to get into the intricate details. Click here to review Wikipedia information page on this subject.
The bottom line here is that people have stopped preparing for tomorrow and only live for today. Many people don't have enough food or water to survive for a week without assistance from an outside source but they have every modern convenience to make them comfortable today.
