Graham Hancock's 'Ancient Apocalypse'

wwkirk

wwkirk

Divine
A top rated (in terms of popularity) current show on Netflix. I haven't watched it yet, but will check it out in the near future. I've listened to some of his books and have found them informative and provocative. Although he regards himself as following the science, he is widely dismissed or worse by mainstream archeologists and historians.

Here's the blurb:
What if everything we know about prehistory is wrong? Journalist Graham Hancock visits archaeological sites around the world investigating if a civilization far more advanced than we ever believed possible existed thousands of years ago.
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Even more fun, some people are pissed! :p

Ancient Apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix​

A show with a truly preposterous theory is one of the streaming giant’s biggest hits – and it seems to exist solely for conspiracy theorists. Why has this been allowed?
 
wwkirk

wwkirk

Divine
wwkirk said:
A top rated (in terms of popularity) current show on Netflix. I haven't watched it yet, but will check it out in the near future. I've listened to some of his books and have found them informative and provocative. Although he regards himself as following the science, he is widely dismissed or worse by mainstream archeologists and historians.

Here's the blurb:

Even more fun, some people are pissed! :p

Ancient Apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix​

A show with a truly preposterous theory is one of the streaming giant’s biggest hits – and it seems to exist solely for conspiracy theorists. Why has this been allowed?
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Wikipedia offers a more lengthy summary of the premise of the series.

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On 30 November 2022, the Society for American Archaeology objected to the classification of the series as a documentary and requested Netflix to reclassify the series as science fiction.
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nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
I like the theory overall, I have not watched the show on Netflix as of yet however here's a video I watched on this show recently:


View: https://youtu.be/uHiG8lMIF10


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The shadow

The shadow

The shadow knows!
History record a war.. long ago ..a war that sounds like a nuke ..
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wwkirk

wwkirk

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nivek said:
I like the theory overall, I have not watched the show on Netflix as of yet however here's a video I watched on this show recently:


View: https://youtu.be/uHiG8lMIF10


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It's a little strange, but maybe understandable that anyone should be opposed to the communication of unusual and/or novel ideas. So what if someone has a theory or hypothesis that turns out to be wrong? The media shouldn't care at all, but you would think ordinary people could just shake their heads and ignore it without getting worked up. Obviously, professionals in the respective fields should be interested, but they should be more about educating than trying to shout down the alleged crackpot.

But what I think is really going on in some cases is that the "crackpots" are not really cracked, and have too much evidence, logic, and sometime covert support from accepted experts, that the establishments within the respective fields see their authority being undermined. The case that the mavericks or outsiders (like Graham) are making is too damned good, yet it would be humiliating for them to acknowledge that the outsiders or renegades have a case..
 
spacecase0

spacecase0

earth human
from what I can tell, the "Nuke war" these people are seeing is actually a solar event, happens every 12K years
the meteor shower that wiped out the dinosaurs also happens along with that timing,
giant lightning tears out bits of the earth and puts it into low earth orbit where it falls back to earth.
it is not a nuke war event, but I am sure it looks like one in what is left for us to look at.
if the sun goes dark, you know it is about to happen again,
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below


Graham Hancock Tells Russell Brand Archaeologists "Despise" Ordinary People​

In case you didn’t see it, Graham Hancock appeared on Russell Brand’s podcast this past week to promote Ancient Apocalypse and to attack archaeologists yet again for being mean to him by asking for evidence for his claims. Hancock looks tired and angry during the interview, and even Brand notes that he seems unduly dejected and downtrodden for a man with one of the world’s most popular streaming nonfiction series.

During the interview Brand complains, not wholly incorrectly, that without Hancock only “elites” have access to archaeology. That’s true, but not because the public needs Atlantis to be interested but because the mainstream media only patronize sensational claims and Hancock’s hated “academics” have retreated into a bubble created by universities’ publish-or-perish mentality, hyper-specialization, and academic publishers exploitative pricing that essentially disincentivizes public engagement. Popularizers certainly have a role to play, but not one that should involve making things up.

Throughout the half-hour podcast Hancock appears grumpy and sad and says he needs “a cuddle” after attacks from critics. Again, Hancock complains about “schools,” “academia,” and “the education system,” and it’s very clear that he is remembering his own school days since he describes the teaching of a “linear” model of “progress” from caveman to computer than hasn’t been taught since the 1960s. (At root, he’s describing the old Victorian model of progress from “savagery” to “barbarism” to “civilization,” long recognized as flawed.)

Hancock alleges that archaeologists have immense “power” and “despise” the public. This is related to his claim that they serve as guardians of an official past and talk down to anyone who challenges some agreed-upon “narrative,” presumably enshrined in a catechism in the Smithsonian to which every archaeologist must swear an oath of allegiance before picking up a trowel.

Hancock, for the first time I recall, announces that there is “a huge amount of evidence for reincarnation,” and then he becomes very upset that “mainstream scientists attack my work” by citing his claims about Atlantean psychic telekinesis in America Before, which he says shouldn’t count against him because they take up but one page. That’s an odd way of looking at one’s own work. Hancock bitterly resents critics noting his drug use, but he only discusses ayahuasca in this context. He purposely claims not to have taken “cocaine” in order to elide his own admission that he was a heavy user of marijuana and that the drug had made him paranoid and impacted his work. Those were his words, and now he carefully talks around them.

He finished the podcast by claiming that modern civilization is “doomed” and that a self-induced apocalypse is coming due to partisan rancor and capitalist destruction of planetary resources. In short, he walks right up to the edge of admitting that it doesn’t matter whether his story about a lost civilization is factually true because it serves as a mythic warning about contemporary society, one that he sees “elites”—meaning those who currently operate the control mechanisms of modern life—trying to suppress to keep the wheels of capitalism turning. Again, it’s an odd choice for someone who became a jet-setting multimillionaire from the media, one of the most successful capitalist enterprises of the past century.

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wwkirk

wwkirk

Divine
Well produced show. I'm up to episode 4. I agree with him that the archeology establishment tries to keep speculative and/or new interpretations hush hush. I sorta get where they are coming from, but not really. If people get excited over an idea that is eventually disproved, what's the harm?

There's a good chance that most of the archeological information that the general public becomes acquainted with is through people like Graham, as opposed to 'mainstream' academics. This would be ironic if true.
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
wwkirk said:
Well produced show. I'm up to episode 4. I agree with him that the archeology establishment tries to keep speculative and/or new interpretations hush hush. I sorta get where they are coming from, but not really. If people get excited over an idea that is eventually disproved, what's the harm?

There's a good chance that most of the archeological information that the general public becomes acquainted with is through people like Graham, as opposed to 'mainstream' academics. This would be ironic if true.
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Thanks for the review, I have not begun watching this series yet, but I will be soon...I think there is some truth to his theories, even if fragmented...

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