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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ELI5?

[+] [email protected] 103 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I used to love this kind of conspiracy stuff as a kid. It was like X Files. Then I learned people took it for real 😒 and it did actual harm to real academic work

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

What's worse is the links to white supremacy in all this shit.

The origin of many of these ancient alien slash ancient apocalypse "theories" are 1900s Germany.

People who were looking for a "scientific" reason why Germans were the superior race.

The core thrust of every "ancient" whatever theory is that ancient people were idiots and had to be shown how to pile rocks into a pyramid shape or shit.

The imaginary people who "showed" ancient brown people how to do shit are always depicted as white.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

There is so much anti science nonsense out there right now, that stuff like this isn't funny anymore. It's sad and, more importantly, dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My fav media is archeological documentaries and my most hated media is archeological documentaries(the ones like these that have 0 content and 99% yap)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So, lots of cuts, repetitions, baseless claims and shitty 3D animations commented "Experts" who have never even published anything of value in "their field"?

Sounds a lot like most Documentaries made by private companies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought, growing in Russia, that such things are not possible in the West. (They were and to some extent still are quite popular here, though, with Fomenko and thousand other freaks.)

Do I look stupid?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not at all. We are all easy victims to propaganda.

Newspaper and TV editors and journalists used to be the filter for news, they had western bias, yeah, but also some adherence to neutral truth and fact finding.

Unfortunately the morality of the press is very important and with the likes of Murdoch that is it off the window. The internet makes for an easy place to search' facts' compatible with your gut feeling...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Not at all. We are all easy victims to propaganda.

Oh, not about that - that I know well since year 2020 when everybody went with "territorial integrity of Azerbaijan" over every agreement and every other principle and every other circumstance during Artsakh war.

This was equivalent to 1993 in Russia (no, I didn't see it, I was born in 1996), when it turned out that Yeltsin being the elected president means that what he does is democratic, despite the parliament, the constitution and the supreme court being on the other side.

It actually sucks more with people from the West because they often sincerely believe that "free world" bullshit, while Russians parroting propaganda know that it's propaganda, they are just cowards or picked a side.

The internet makes for an easy place to search’ facts’ compatible with your gut feeling…

Not limited to that. It's also that a lot of people in a lot of situations today are spectators, while 30 years ago they would be participants. It's not only the Web, it's the whole cultural shift which is catastrophic and if it's not reverted, we'll be nostalgic over WWII with the "at least then you could heroically die on the side of the good guys" mood.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I think I might have watched 1 or 2 episodes of this? I thought it was weird how he was talking about how known history is totally wrong and the vast majority of people don't know the truth. If it's the same thing anyways. DNF though lol