How Humanity’s Need to Be Certain is Holding Us Back from Evolving Our Society
The process of advancing knowledge in academia is broken.
As I get older, something that becomes abundantly clear is that no one has any clue what the hell is going on.
I was listening to an interview with Graham Hancock last night. Graham wrote a book called Fingerprint of the Gods in the ’90s. It highlighted elements of human history that challenged the traditional narrative.
Graham wasn’t taken very seriously by the boys club that is modern archeology, and much of his findings were brushed off as the results of pseudo-science. If you look Graham up on Wikipedia, it says he practices “pseudo-archeology”.
Yet, as I did my own research into Graham and the evidence he cited, I found myself taken aback. It didn’t seem as if his hypotheses were unfounded conspiracies, they seemed almost as probable as what we currently consider as scientific fact.
Our current understanding of human history is that the first form of modern-day civilization appeared about 5,000–6,500 years ago. Around 4,500–3,000 BC with a group called the Sumer. From there, modern history tells us; we started to work together, established norms and values, eventually started to map out the world; travel and…
