Graham Hancock
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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that we have a LIDAR survey of the whole of the Amazon. That's what I'd like to see. And it wouldn't be a billion dollar project because it can be done with drones now. It could be relatively cost efficient.
Yeah. And we have the tech. We can do that. We can do a LiDAR survey of the Amazon.
I think it was in Ecuador or Colombia. I can't remember. That was Percy Fawcett, wasn't it? And kind of... echo of that earlier discovery of lost cities in the Amazon. These stories won't go away because there is a hidden past in the Amazon and because there were cities in the Amazon and God knows what was in them, you know, before the Spanish came along and destroyed everything.
If we could find it was a real place, I wish we could.
Wow. I think we're going to find the lost city of X and Y as well.
And W. Maybe ABCD. And possibly ABC and D too.
Yeah, not enough is known. And I think it's right and proper that we have curiosity about our past. And I think it's unfortunate that people, including myself, who express that curiosity... without any dogma, but simply are mystified by problems from the past, are so likely to get slapped down and face this abusive power grab by archaeology who are saying the past is ours.
You may not intrude here. We will define you as a pseudoscientist. We will call you a hoaxer and a liar. I defy anyone out there to find a single statement I've made that is a lie. And a lie is a knowing untruth. As far as I know, I have never, ever told knowingly an untruth. What a stupid thing to do that would be. That would scupper my whole work. I may have made some honest mistakes.
Everybody does, including the most godlike archaeologist. But I have never knowingly told an untruth, and I never would. Of course not. The interesting thing, though, is- But seriously, I'd like an example because this is thrown at me so many times.
Define the untruths.
It was most unfortunate. I think he let archaeology down very badly in the way that he manipulated that debate. And I'm sorry it's taken me so long to come back with the fact-checking, but it was necessary to do. And I'm very grateful to a number of completely independent, separate individuals on the Internet who have drawn attention to some of what Flint did.
One calls himself an illegitimate scholar. And the other calls himself de-dunking. And they got into this material very, very early and helped me to understand how I'd been duped by this material. Because I took it all at face value.
And there's also that feeling of just being patronized by the so-called experts. Nobody wants to be patronized and feel that somebody else regards them as too stupid to make up their own mind on something.
Not at all. Archaeologists have done some fantastic work. And it's really important work. What I've realized is that there's almost two different mindsets at work here in looking at the past.
I think archaeology is very determined to demonstrate that it's a science, that it's a hard science, that it's completely rational, that it's all based on scientific method and anything that sounds unscientific, which include myths, must be avoided. And also, I do find that archaeology, and it may be true in other sciences as well, are very reluctant to use the imagination.
The imagination is seen as a deadly threat. Whereas I think imagination is a really important thing in interpreting the past. We should be open to possibilities rather than coming into what we confront with a closed idea. We should consider how it might have been, what might have happened. Let's use our imagination and think about this. Think what all this means.
Think what that common iconography all around the world means rather than just saying, oh, it's a coincidence.
Could be Polynesia, could be Africa. And then there are these other faces which in the video I've put out, I've shown some of these. It's not just myths of a bearded foreigner turning up in the Americas. which Flint Dibble and other archaeologists say were all concocted and invented by the Spaniards. We discussed that during the debate.
I have a real problem with that because that is patronizing to the indigenous people. I think the myths were there amongst the indigenous people, and I think the Spaniards saw how they could use them, how they could manipulate them. But I don't think they made up the myths and somehow imposed them upon the indigenous people who then believed that they were their own myths.
I don't think they were that stupid. They knew what their myths were.
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