1. I have a few thoughts on Atlantis and other "lost" civilizations, ancient mound builders, Abraham Lincoln, Ezra Pound, the anthropologist Leo Frobenius, West African art and space aliens. Maybe also Jack Kirby.
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9. I think with the creation of Black Panther in 1966, Jack Kirby was trying to see if this rather dismal tradition could be repurposed to anti-racist ends, with the role of the advanced hidden civilization being taken by Wakanda, a black nation.
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10. As a science fiction or pulp conceit, the idea of ancient astronauts is fun. But I do think people who palm it off as an actual theory (i.e von Däniken) are doing a lot of harm: poisoning our ability to appreciate these ancient cultures on their own terms.
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11. At bottom, these theories always show a fundamental failure of imagination: an inability to believe that there existed human communities outside the western tradition who created strange, wonderful, complex artifacts, sometimes beyond our skills.
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The great moment of mind-meld between the traditions is Colin Wilson’s schlock old ones novel, The Philosopher’s Stone
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Wait, tell me more about Colin Wilson's schlock old ones novel! (This is a great thread.)
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This is fascinating, but isn't the awfulness of the alien truth, it's utterly un-uplifting quality in contradiction to this? I say Lovecraft's racism is made less noxious (not excused!) by the fact that 'white supremacy' is the last thing you would say was true in his worlds.
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Then I think you'd definitely want to check out Spooky Archaeology (I'm sure the press would be able to do a review copy). This is a huge chunk of the book. I've talked about some of this material in audio, linked in following tweets
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While I've talked about the Mu stones on Archaeological Fantasies with
@ArchyFantasies and@fiftysitesbook here is an interview of me by Jack Churchward, the great-grandson of the creator of the Lost Continent of Muhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoYdynbvmvQ …
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