Cartoon 782: The Reason is …

I have been seeing over and over again archeological evidence that contradicts our current view of civilized man’s evolution. Some of it is sensationalism and “tongue and check”. But there is also serious work by German and French archeologist at several sites around the world. Two things stand out. First, the sites are far older than we attribute to the rise of human development. Second, these sites are constructed on a scale and in a manner beyond our technological understanding.

I recall things many people are unaware or have forgot about the difficulty in changing ideology. In the 1980s a heretic was ridiculed in his profession and in the media. His crime was suggesting tooth and gum disease should be treated like any other disease. He suggested antibiotics and chemicals instead of the most often approach. It was performing extractions of teeth, killing the root and trimming the gums. Our approach is not timely in remediating the need for drastic action. It was heresy at the time. But look on most tubes of toothpaste today and the medical establishment now champions biological preventive approaches with the baking soda and peroxide in the toothpaste.

I remember reading a comic book when I was young. Comics at the time were good venues to present a theory that had little possibility of mainstream acceptance. One wild idea was that a meteor had killed off the dinosaurs. Two branches of science had come into conflict with this ascertion, astronomy and archeology. Today a meteor killing off the dinosaurs is one of the more accepted theories.

Changes in view are grudgingly accepted by the establishment. I keep weaseling with why the West, and America in particular, is absolutely against entertaining the possibility of previous advanced civilizations. It seems to fly in the face of our popular myth of scientific openness.

I have to ask what are the stakes in this issue? First, the monolithic blocks of stone moved great distances and positioned speaks to a capability we lack today. Second, climate change has generated a far different map today than that of the past in terms of habitability, which implies we are looking in the wrong places. Thousands of years ago the sea was not as high. Perhaps there are many very ancient sites under water today. The Sahara is a another prime example. It was once a wet fertile area. What else is buried in the sands of today? Third, these older civilizations precede our oldest Western histories embodied in Judaism and Christianity. This creates questions about these theologies at a time of religious zeal in America. Forth, the geographical locations of the sites guarantee the peoples were not Caucasian.

Perhaps the reason for cognitive dissonance is the duality of ideology and racism.