Old Stories Given Credence by Ignorant Influencers

Continuity. Thousands of years ago, authoritarian elites made up an origins story to legitimate their rule. Now uneducated sheeple in the US enabling another autharitarianism seize upon the very same made-up timelines to legitimise their own beliefs:

Joe Rogan: “I’ve been really fascinated by the Sumerian King List. They’re the ones that have all this crazy stuff with the Anunnaki. It’s this list of people who ran the Earth for tens of thousands of years. Their reign was like tens of thousands of years, and then there’s this huge flood. Afterwards, the timelines become way more—it’s like, he was a king for 50 years. They have it documented to like eight kings over the entire course of their civilization, including the places that these kings ruled that actually exist. These are ancient cities that are actually built on top of even more ancient cities. And they had an understanding of stuff that was way beyond what we thought they were capable of. They have Pythagoras’ theorem 1,000 years before Pythagoras".

Bret Weinstein: “There is this increasingly fascinating thread about a recurrent disaster cycle, and the possibility that sophisticated civilizations get erased and that we rediscover.”

@joerogan @BretWeinstein