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> what is with the obsession that ancient egyptians were incapable of building these monuments? It's part of the broader new age movement. It coincided with th
by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> what is with the obsession that ancient egyptians were incapable of building these monuments?
It's part of the broader new age movement. It coincided with the rise of commodification of the identity, individualism of the 80s and 90s, and the self-care movement. People express beliefs in a higher power as a way of dealing with many things, and many new age people look either to the stars or into "other dimensions" (whatever that means) for these higher powers.
I'd also like to point out that although you could view this as being cynical about the capacity of humanity, you could also view this as hope that someone will save us from ourselves. You can also see this in political belief with eg posadism (where dolphins/aliens elevate us after we destroy ourselves with nuclear warfare and recuperate by turning to communism, which to be fair is also basically the plot of star trek) or the belief that a free market expresses superhuman collective rationalism that will save us from individual failings.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoAppreciate the comment. Are you a real person?
- schmidt_fifty 2y agoYes, of course. What kind of comment is this? EDIT: to be clear, I think the idea of alien involvement in pyramids is ridiculous. I'm just answering the question.
- ithkuil 2y ago> what kind of comment is this? It's part of a broader new new age movement. The race to the bottom in the quality of online comments made any informative content immediately suspect of being produced by LLMs which got trained on the few trillion high quality tokens that are encoding all human knowledge.
- robocat 2y ago> few trillion high quality tokens Where are these high quality tokens you speak of? In the dark net? Maybe my input filters are set incorrectly but I don't see too many myself. And I'm fairly sure most of the tokens I write are not up to training qwuality.
- ithkuil 2y agoThey are hard to find indeed. Finding them is a whole new business
- nextaccountic 2y agoI think about that Westworld line a lot. "If you can't tell, does it matter?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaahx4hMxmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaahx4hMxmw
- CTDOCodebases 2y agoPeople have been doing this for millennia. It's called religion. When people don't understand something they attribute it to a higher power.[0] [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps