![]() ![]() There are times when I despair for the future of our civilisation. Everything that you see on their shows comes from legit scientific sources and is supported by many word class researches and experts”. A quote from an online forum should suffice to illustrate the point: “ I don’t think you will be able to easily ‘debunk’ anything you see on the history channel. If it’s been on a television documentary, so popular wisdom has it, then it must be true: a twenty-first century equivalent of “ I read it in the paper, so it must be true…”. And it’s in its second series! Given that many people in the modern world use the television as their principal window on the world and source of information about that world, for a significant number of them, it has an authority that probably no other institution (even school) does. According to the History Channel’s website, “This ancient stone figure, found at the Mayan ruins in Tikal, Guatemala, resembles a modern-day astronaut in a space helmet” no, it doesn’t!Īnd yet, the discovery that it has given air time to a programme called Ancient Aliens (note that it’s not even a question!) is shocking and profoundly depressing. ![]()
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