Dr. Irving Finkel

And this is, in my opinion, immensely diagnostic evidence

because the natural function here would be for things to proliferate and people to compete and people to set up their own thing.

And we're doing it this way if you don't like it.

But that's what human beings do.

And these Sumerians, they may look stiffish on their monuments and in their chariots with big noses and funny flowered skirts, but they were exactly the same as people are today.

This is a very important principle.

And you can attribute to these people the same kind of psychological tricks.

characteristics and behavior in my opinion as you would witness in any number of persons surrounding us in london so this is serious matter so what happens here is we have to assume that the the amphictyony which is implied by this seal with all these cities in conjunction must have had political consequences

And it must have been that somebody called a summit at some point to say, we all know, ladies and gentlemen, about this new writing nonsense.

Well, it's going to be very useful to us all, but the first thing we have to do is to standardize it.

Otherwise, it will be self-defeating.

This is the sort of thing they should have done when they invented the internet.

But, of course, man never learned from his own history.

Otherwise, we wouldn't have any more wars, for example.

Just an aside there.

But the thing is, it seems to me compellingly certain that the direction of the script was controlled from the beginning.

And the only way that can happen is by one human being.

brain, not by a committee.

There must have been a person who exercised sufficient compelling power and authority and charisma, who saw what would happen if this was left to run naturally, who took over and supervised it.

And the thing is this.