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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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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now looking back seems kinda weird doing The Eternals a decade later
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That may be true. Unfortunately, slightly later, he based The Eternals on the work of Erich Von Daniken, a direct inheritor of the crackpot racist pseduo-anthropology tradition. Because it was Kirby, the comic was at least worth looking at.
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There are other super-scientific civilizations in the comics though (Eternals, Inhumans on the Kirby side); maybe Wakanda just one of those?
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Perhaps. Equally, he might have been tapping into the “magic black man” tradition.
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The nice thing about literature (including comic books) is we aren’t bound by the author’s intent, rather swayed by their images and called to create anew.
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First of all: This is a very informative thread. However, I think that the idea of Wakanda as an ancient advanced civilization was a later addition. Under Kirby, Wakanda's advancements were more recent, IIRC.
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