Commenters take it for granted that the Black Sea Valley will be studied more. The Caucasian mummies in China have NOT been studied more. They are in the Memory Hole. As one astronaut said, “I always hoped I might be the FIRST man on the moon. It never occurred to me that I would be the LAST.”
Here is where my memory comes in. You don’t realize how many things get completely ignored because, well, they are completely ignored. There is nobody to remind you of them, and most people write about the latest news release.
From what I can see, the last exploration there was in 2001, by the same man who did the earlier one. He was disappointed that they found wood from trees instead of houses when they sent hooks away down there. Actually, if you dropped a hook into modern France, which is smaller and far more crowded than the Black Sea Valley was, you would come up almost entirely with trees unless you happened to hit on an urban area.
And there it stopped. “Christians” don’t want any exploration there. Liberals do not want to risk finding the Urheimat of the Indo-European race they have persuaded everybody to forget about. They want to talk about how the Nubians built Egypt while Northern Europeans grunted and waited to learn how to use the opposable thumb.
Without my kind of memory, maybe you cannot really see how critical the Manufacture of Information is. Anything that is not in the newspaper in the last month is FORGOTTEN. We have a better Memory Hole than Orwell did.
Whole areas of study, involving tens of billions of dollars, from theology to social science, are invested entirely in the Garbage Dump Theory of History. Who is going to defy all that and finance the huge project it would be to get down under all that fresh and sea water?
The truth will eventually out, but that is because, as I pointed in my forgotten summation to A Plague on Both Your Houses, the whole social science establishment is facing an embryonic NEXT establishment. Carbon dating and frontal lobes and a lot of other things want money, and another study of how blacks suffer or the Holocaust is taking it. I can see signs of this frustration now, but I could not explain it in the time I want to devote to it.
Black Sea History will be an afterthought, and it won’t come from history or archeology. Advancing science in fifty years will let us read the Black Sea bed very clearly.
That is why I hesitate to make predictions. I know where things are going but I am weary, weary unto DEATH of guiding people back into rational thought. Most of the people I deal with are like bowling beginners; the ball hits the floor and, at slightly different distances, goes over into the gutter.
But I see the basics spreading. That is the only point that matters. When it hits the headlines, some people will ready to absorb it.
Besides, I would have to repeat it eery two weeks and I don’t want to bother.
#1 by Dave on 01/13/2007 - 9:33 pm
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This whole business of the inability to remember (to remember what’s genuinely important) is the key enabler of chaos and catastrophe in human affairs.
This inability to remember defines fate and anyone who thinks that the inability to remember is trivial or just another factor in human affairs doesn’t understand what’s going on at all.
No one hands out guarantees and the belief that guarantees exist (progressivism and millennialism) is our definitive delusion.
Important knowledge and know how can be lost and has been lost and will be lost.
The reality is just stupefying.
For example, how is possible the US can carry out an aggression (Iraq and Afghanistan) and yet again find itself shredded by a war of attrition? The stupidity is just mind-boggling.
The whole thing was carried out in complete contravention of military strategy basics 101 which holds an army most never cede the offensive.
This lesson has been learned through the ages at least one million times. Just the same basic mistake over and over and over and over endlessly. Why???
THE INABILITY TO REMEMBER WHAT IS GENUINELY IMPORTANT IS WHY. CONSEQUENTLY, WE HUMANS HAVE GOT A MEMORY PROBLEM.
It doesn’t get more basic than that, but nobody sees it.
The frustrating thing is that the knowledge and lessons are recorded in books and writings that are easily available, but to no avail because when it comes to actual decisions the critical lessons are not apprehended or remembered, regardless of the fact that they were meticulously recorded and the recordings were carefully preserved.
The whole US population is under the delusion that things will work out and get better. That same population has been conditioned to feel contempt for the “evil Nazis”, while brazenly and blindingly committing the same crime the Nazis committed which was to believe (truly believe without question) in INEVITABLE PROGRESS.
So very few understand that the whole process of history is replete will long (centuries long) and enduring eras where things have truly gone to hell in a hand basket.
There is no guarantee of an enlightened future and it is pure delusion to believe otherwise. For if you believe otherwise, you are going to have to explain to me just who it is that hands out such guarantees.
#2 by Alan on 01/15/2007 - 2:16 am
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Iraq or Afganistan for that matter were wars for Isreal, planed in advance and lobbied for by Jewish interest when the moment was right. Colonial occupation would be a better term for it, nobody planned for the peace since this war had nothing to do about the Iraqi people, it was geo political in nature. One more phase in some master plan to create a perfect world, like that multicultrial pipe dream that is force upon our white race, its an illusion.
#3 by Simmons on 01/15/2007 - 10:16 pm
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Speaking of mummies some archeologists have recently found a 2000 year old mummy in Monglolia and he has blond hair. I seen the pictures that Spiegel posted. Some profs in Germany are studying him now and of course in a matter of weeks it will be found out he was anti-semitic and life should be centered on endless discussions of the Old Testament and its wonderful people.