Like, I appreciate that the Overton Window shifts, but there’s no way this shit is organic…
It’s everywhere, now. Not just college campuses. Not just the internet. Not just cable news. In urban Australia, it is almost literally inescapable (unless you never turn on the TV, never use a streaming service, never read the news, and practically never leave your suburb).
It’s… Bizarre. And people have become afraid to speak out, or question it.
Hell, I even know some of my own family members (and family friends) have started to “adopt” political positions fundamentally at odds to the beliefs they claimed to hold, less than a decade ago… So much so that it takes getting them in a one-on-one, face to face situation to admit they secretly don’t believe what they pretend to, when around the rest of the family, or that they secretly don’t believe that the endless boosters and masks will “protect” them from this virus that everyone around me claims to still fear…
It’s… I don’t think I’ve ever seen society be this… Conformist, and cowed, and fundamentally… “Degenerate”.
Honestly, from where I sit, it feels like the loudmouth activists have won, and “we”/normies have fundamentally lost.
It’s fucking disillusioning AF. Just look at any “documentary” that covers how things have “changed” in the last 2-3 decades. I promise you, you’ll see the trend…
Something’s gotta give. Society can only bend so far left before it a) breaks, or b) snaps back.
More and more this feels like the last days of Athens/Rome/Constantinople. I very much doubt we have the technology and wherewithal to prevent a similar collapse.
Stay sane, y’all. I’m not sure how much longer I can keep pushing back, for what that’s worth…
It literally is a cyclical problem, watch the video - that’s why anatomically modern humans have existed for ~300,000 years yet “history” only started 12,000 years ago (last impact)
History begins when humans start maintaining a historical record. You are suggesting that the last impact destroyed the existing historical artifacts, and despite humans starting to create new cultural artifacts soon after, none of those cultural artifacts recorded the fact that their previous cultural artifacts had just been destroyed.
And all of this is despite the more plausible explanation - that people simply hadn't started creating historical artifacts before that point - is backed up by the fact that such cultures have continued to exist all the way up to European colonisation.
90% of humans live within a few miles of a coastline. Catastrophic changes in weather/water levels/etc are going to do a number on any “historical artifacts” that make it through the firestorm from the impact.
Literally almost every civilizations foundational myth includes these claims of “we are the remnants of a once great power, what was left after calamity”. Greeks, Egyptians, Indians (both feather and dot), and so on. The “world flood” myth is another omnipresent one. Just because you call them “myth” doesn’t mean those cultures didn’t call them “historical record”.
Did Jesus come down and erase all the previous signs of a progressed civilization while Satan was up secretly planting dinosaur bones to confuse people?
Because we have dinosaur bones. But apparently things much MUCH more recent than dinosaur bones, we don't even have a shadow of a trace of, and you're arguing this makes sense and is logical.
Our constructs will last millions of years, some of them. Not many, but enough that five thousand centuries from now, even if every volcano on Earth erupts while a meteor hits simultaneously, even our mere hundred years of industrialization impact will be marked until the Earth's death. The KT event is visible on the rock faces 'til the end of Earthly time, so too is our existence.
Humans are greater than you imagine.
Anatomically modern humans have existed for ~300,000 years. According to your world view, history started 12,000 years ago. What were your ancestors doing for 288,000 years? Jerking off in caves? Because that wouldn’t surprise me
You're arguing (para)psychology in what is, ultimately, a physics question.
Explain the physics of your claim that something is causing all physical evidence to disappear into the aether while physical evidence of other things in the same or longer timeframes is maintained and continues to exist, or else disappear yourself.
-90% of humans live within a few miles of a coastline
-we’re discussing a cosmic impact, in the form of either a large body or large coronal mass ejection (world wide fire storm) followed by massive sea level changes as glaciers flash-melt
-potentially increased solar radiation levels at the surface from weakened magnetic field and CMEs
-all humans are either killed by mega tsunamis or driven into caves to survive
-all human coastal settlements face ~1000-12,000 years of being buried under feet of salty brine, mud, and sediment (construction steel wouldn’t even come close to surviving this - assuming these prior civilizations chose to mass produce steel, which is not part of the discussion I was starting, the level or direction of technological advancement of these ancient cultures is to be determined [though their mastery of astrology and construction efforts like the Great Pyramid indicate something interesting], their existence is the nearly indisputable fact)
Anyway, the science and geology is all there, it’s up to you to determine if you think it’s believable that anatomically modern humans were content to live in caves jerking off for 288,000 years, or if there are things that “modern science” just isn’t aware of yet on a mass (popular) scale