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While I enjoy pseudo-archaeology as slop, I hate the "ancient aliens" shit in particular. They actually allege that the pyramids were built by aliens instead of being an accident. It robs Ancient Egyptians of their autonomy and experience, witnessing the accidental construction and having to make sense with all the new stressors that must have introduced to their society. To even claim that aliens built them, the grifters would have to first prove the existence of aliens and they don't do that.
They do this with any non-white culture with large megastructures, especially indigenous Americans. It literally boils down to "brown people couldn't possibly have done this" 99% of the time
Meanwhile, the whitest of white people built Stonehenge, which is something a sufficiently-sized toddler could have done.
Once I noticed the low-key racist vibes of only choosing things made by non-European cultures as made by aliens I've hated it, too.
Imagine being a Chinese person, accidentally building a wall too long, and being told you couldn't possibly do that because Europeans accidentally enclosed Constantinople in walls even though it's a city that needs to grow.
Not only that, but it feels like they replaced aryans with aliens in order to get to that conclusion. It's just that belittling to the locals.
Very much so. There's an undercurrent of white supremacy where only Europeans, creators of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and similar malformed structures, could accidentally build a pyramid.
Clearly they were just moving some rocks around randomly and a pyramid emerged
I live in the 21st century, I have a graphing calculator and computer and autocad, I've studied 3000 years of mathematics they didn't have. It would be hard for me to make any kind of building. Whatever they were trying to build, it came out looking like that and I couldn't do much better. Good effort but I can see why the only similar structure we've built since was a Bass Pro Shop. It doesn't work as a design.
I actually don't think it's as prejudiced as people claim. The actual theory is that the ancient megalithic structures around the world (including the few built by white Europeans, such as Stonehenge) were built by humans using advanced, now-lost technology passed down to them by a visiting off-world civilization. Most people are surprised to learn that Carl Sagan entertained similar ideas (before he got compromised, allegedly^[I've been meaning to read this sometime: https://annas-archive.org/md5/3ed2ff3e6089f7c5607a58bf31265d5d]):
Consider what it would take to build and fly a spaceship to earth. Extremely advanced metallurgy, physics, mathematics- it would be a crowning achievement for our species a century from now if we became competent enough to actually visit another world. One that surpasses our greatest skyscrapers and aircraft so much that they would look like apes using rock tools. You honestly believe a civilisation like that, so far beyond our comprehension that they probably see us as insects, could fly alllllllllllllllllll the way here and fuck up a building that badly?
Fuck up which building?
I think humans built them (and so does Giorgio Tsoukalos for that matter).
The pyramids. I think humans built them too, I just think it was Egyptians who made an honest mistake.
Not their fault they built it upside down
Woulda looked nice as a cube. That's all I'm sayin'. You can fit a LOT more treasure in a cube.