Has This All Happened Before?
Reviewing Graham Hancock and his books
Suppose everything the doomsayers write is true and we realise that our society is inevitably going to end, everything we know will be gone forever and only some remote tribes have a chance of survival and carrying on the human enterprise. What do we do about it?
A few things pop to mind, first is to build an arc or a vault in which we’d store our genetic samples, seeds, and whatnot. We’re doing this already in Svalbard. Perhaps we wouldn’t put there just the seeds but our cultural and technological artefacts too.
But these artefacts are difficult to understand outside their cultural context. Even people who currently live don’t all know how to read musical notation, use complex electronic devices or understand nuances of poetry and painting…
We need something that is way more obvious! Something that does not permit any doubts in our technological ability.
Something that is impossible to build!
Like a giant stone pyramid with clean mathematical proportions and precise astronomical alignment?
Would that do it? Would that convince future archaeologists that there once was an advanced civilisation capable of miracles?
