Well, it was 2020. You kind of expect "ah, now we see where humanity's behavior went wrong." Hindsight and all.

I’m afraid that already happened after World War I, according to the final sentence of 1066 and All That <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That>:

> America was thus clearly Top Nation, and History came to a .

(For any confused Americans, remember . is a full stop, not a period.)

so the mayans were off by merely a decade