The video reminds me of the old joke; how do you known when a politician is telling the truth? He's talking about his opponent?

So how do you know when Graham Hancock might be exactly correct? He's talking about archaeology.

All funding for research goes to further what Hancock calls "the narrative" and all results are expressed in terms of what is already "known". It is simply impossible for any change so long as this persists. As the anomalies stack up nothing changes. New hypotheses are treated with an "immune response" by experts. There's no dialog because new ideas are a disease that must be attacked and eradicated rather than discussed or investigated. Anomalies are dismissed as "too confusing for the general public" and then fill up the basements of museums. Then even the narrative is periodically updated to reflect current beliefs rather than reflecting ancient beliefs!!! We live a massive non sequitur.

Hancock is wrong about wiki though. They aren't only wrong about heretics, they are wrong about everything. Wiki has always been an attempt to reflect state of the art and factual statements about reality especially in terms of state of the art are almost impossible. Wiki reflects modern beliefs and always has and now the search engines are just as bad and even much worse. They don't return relevant hits at all and merely return doctrine based on a single keyword in the search parameters. We're not only trapped in non sequitur world, so long as people believe they are Siri geniuses, we can never emerge. People used to believe that scientists know everything (homo omnisciencis) and now they believe that with Siri they know everything too!!!!

Academia has gone beyond orwellian by eating its own tail. Or is that eating its own "tale". The messenger has become the message.

The pyramid should inspire utter awe. I think this is where Egyptology went so wrong. By pounding a round peg in a square hole they have sealed their fate. They should not have been able to create the narrative in the first place due to the 6 1/2 million ton anomaly. They should never have stuck to the idea that it was a tomb due to the lack of any corroborating direct physical evidence, and the extensive cultural context that says it was not a tomb. All of archaeology has succumbed to these errors and incorporated them producing "the narrative". They believe that superstition can create civilization without knowledge and science.

Hancock is very insightful, very well spoken, and nobody's fool. I wonder if the same can be said about Hoopes?

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2023 11:55AM by cladking.