The civilizational philosophy of 10,950 BC

I’ll share with you here a philosophical insight that I gleaned from the evidence presented in the book America Before by Graham Hancock that is especially relevant to THIS moment in history…

An admission, I used to be a “young-earth creationist,” which means that I was among the Christians that believe that God created the world and universe about 6,000 years ago. A commonly-held and dogma-driven view of history that we now view as absurd and anti-rational which necessitates ignoring a lot of evidence. Almost nobody (Christians included) is now a young-earth creationist — but (even the intelligentsia of) society still holds some very dogmatic views of history that require ignoring a lot of evidence. Graham Hancock has written several books thoroughly documenting and analyzing this evidence. According to the mainstream view of history, our species suddenly jumped from scratching about in the dust to building the pyramids and other megaliths of tremendous proportions and size — civilizational endeavors requiring mastery of complex mathematics and engineering principles. While our modern civilization can barely keep the lights on in a lot of places (and can’t even keep the Notre Dame cathedral from burning down), we’re made to believe that ancient humans jumped right from chasing down megafauna on the flatlands with spears to the decadent project of building giant monuments perfectly aligned to the astrological starscape above, in a matter of (at the most) a few thousand years, while they were mired in a barbaric and deeply superstitious societal state. Indeed, “young civilizationists” (like young-earth creationists) believe that something magical happened about six millennia ago.