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I think the most funny thing about depictions of hunter gatherers is that the Flintstones is more accurate than a lot of stuff about "cave men" you see in some museums. These were real societies, people had modes of transportation, art, entertainment, trade and jobs. Basically everything we have but on another scale. They weren't swinging clubs and shoving raw meat in their mouths, but built homes, taught kids, sang songs, had parties, played pranks on each other and mourned their dead. Arguing that they were simpleton half humans that needed to be taught by a greater civilization is a disgrace to our kind and our ancestors.
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During latest Joe Rogan episode with Hancock and Carlson. Joe ended the episode with asking if there were some archeologist watching who could come and debate them on this subject. I would like to see what Hancocks response to this critique is, could you please contact them and do the podcast?
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I remember back in Uni in a class about Sumerian Archeology, the prof very clearly told us that if there was any proof of aliens visiting or anything like that, he'd love to be the first to publish about it and get it out there. I think generally people way underestimate how curious and open minded actual, trained, archeologist generally are. It's just that there's no evidence for the wild claims, not that they're trying to hide it.
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As far as the Quetzalcoatl thing, he was described as white and being associated with the color white in the myth, yes, but he was also described as a feathered serpent. In addition, he was one of four sort of major gods, the Four Tezcatlipocas, each of which was associated with a cardinal direction and a color. Quetzalcoatl was the White Tezcatlipoca, ruler of the west. There was also Xipe Totec, the Red Tezcatlipoca, ruler of the east, Huitzilopochtli, the Blue Tezcatlipoca and ruler of the south, and then there was Tezcatlipoca, the Black Tezcatlipoca and ruler of the North. So the whiteness of Quetzalcoatl doesn't quite mean what some people may desperately want it to mean.
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A note on Quetzalcoatl being white, that's one of four color-coded deities, all of which gets a color, there's a black one, a red one, a white one and a blue one, and I'm doubtful it has much connection to human skin colors. I'm sure Ancient Aliens types would love to hop on the idea of Huitzilopochtli being confirmation of blue aliens or something, though.
But yeah, 100% I think these people are capitalizing on the audience not knowing these things so they can bring something up in isolation and lead that into a claim unchallenged by the other information that would make such claims difficult at best.
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between this show and Netflix's Cleopatra it is pretty clear that Netflix doesn't want to make shows about reality. sensationalist and false history brings in more views, and they also draw in people like yourself because you know how wrong it is, and that just adds to the viewers and gets them more money.
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Every time I watch a video series debunk ancient alien or Atlantis theories like this, I'm always struck by the conspiracy theorists outright ignoring the examples of stone work, statuary or other carvings that are half finished, and the tools that are sometimes still left in the ground nearby. I'm also struck by how these people can work on their theories for decades and yet never recognize that ancient people's were not as primitive as we've been led to believe. In fact, most of the cultural misconceptions we have about ancient cultures likely come from Hollywood's general lack of historical accuracy, because visually and narratively, being accurate doesn't tend to play much into the story they're telling. Hollywood has also avoided most ancient historical tales in favor of dozens of films taking place in Greece and Egypt, and rarely showing examples of how things were built or carved because again, those things aren't important to the film narrative. So it's no wonder that the much more clever mechanical devices that were actually built to solve construction problems never get the exposure they deserve, and we simply assume ancient people had no concept of pullies, clockwork, rotational energy, or what have you. Sure, we can believe that ancient cultures were capable of learning how to melt and craft bronze metals despite how long that must have taken to go from zero knowledge to body armor and blades, but we just can't believe those same people could construct blocks of stone with perfect right angles?
Not to mention, no one who purports these theories ever seems to recognize their bias that "all humans, for all time, must have been as impatient as we are now." We get near instant gratification on everything from food, to transportation, to information, and construction is profoundly quicker to execute. But back 1000s of years ago, everything took time, lots of it. So the idea that sculpting a single column 15 feet tall for 8 months to a year might seem absurd to us today, but there's plenty of evidence that it wasn't back then. Most large buildings, in any major era, took decades to build until we invented power tools and hydraulic cranes.
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