Vestiges of ancient technology that was wiped out in the big flood. Truth is being hidden from us to either protect us or keep us enslaved, most likely the latter. There's no doubt in my mind whoever is in control has access to cross dimensional knowledge, just don't know how the pyramids fit in all of that.
Ah, this one is perhaps where you and I differ. It’s more of a recent revelation of mine: that society believes in an infinite accumulation of knowledge and awareness. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Blah blah blah.
I call b.s. Civilizational knowledge is rather finite. We socially forget as much as learn.
We’ve probably even forgotten more than we know today. How to build pyramids, how to move menhirs. Lost Minoan ceramics and cooking techniques that were recreated centuries later. Celtic Irish culture where at sites like Knowth we knew how to build structures that would withstand and coexist alongside nature for centuries when we can’t even build a phone today that will last 6 years.
The “pyramid puzzle” attempts to reconcile ancient and modern Egyptians - to assuage the cognitive dissonance of “how can these be the same people who built the great pyramids?” - mostly through a linear progression through Greek civilization and enlightenment (not Chinese).
We even forgot how to build the Pantheon with the fall of the Roman Empire and it took 1000 years to find old writings, create concrete, and do something similar with Brunelleschi’s Dome in the Renaissance.
The hippy-eco-friendly Kogi tribe in Colombia worries that we become more disconnected from our ancestral wisdom over time, versus the Western view that we exponentially accumulate knowledge over time. There is truth in both views, but we typically value one over the other.
Call it my theory of cultural displacement: creating space for new knowledge at the loss of what was once superior and contextual to the time. Our talk of constant acceleration presumes the past was slow and nothing happened, when in reality that speed was also the speed of forgetting, losing connection with how the earth works, losing connection with the human experience and the mind.
GPS is teaching us to lose our directional sense. AI is teaching us how writing, even rational thinking, isn’t important. Meanwhile, we struggle to fathom how our species coexisted with Neanderthals.
Unlearning isn't so much a human challenge as it is a human state of being. People need to recognize that we intentionally deprioritize things as a culture and forget them all the time.
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