Ben van Kerkwyk
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And it's also this assumption that there's been a linear path of progression always.
But that's not even the case today, right?
You can go to ancient sites, whether it is in Mexico or even in Greece, and you see really shitty construction right next to the Parthenon, right?
I mean, the Acropolis and the Parthenon is right next to crappy apartment buildings, right?
They're really close, right?
You've obviously, you can't do, you're not, why didn't you do that?
It's something, there's something weird.
There's something weird going on.
And this is like 2,000 years ago where we knew who they were.
We know the people, we know they did it.
Like amazing precision, amazing construction methods, incredible art, incredible engineering and architecture, right?
all understandable, but yet more advanced than the techniques utilized in 2025 in the exact same area, which is weird, right?
So that's without a cataclysm.