Well thought out Ella, I agree. Once we’ve been given a certain established mindset (and most of the rest of society, including the experts, has also got that same view) then introducing something different can be difficult to take. Often only very slowly do mainstream ideas on things change.

I really enjoyed the documentary too – seems there are many credible voices out there who are working together to bring undeniable evidence forward to challenge official history. It must be incredibly hard to risk your academic respect by speaking against the status quo and I have big respect for the people who put their expertise towards doing just this.

It makes me wonder about why this isn’t more well known. I suppose the early education we recieve has a lot to do with it, and so long as that is controlled by the state, once we are programmed to see the world in a certain way it’s very hard to change this. Once people are adult and go out into the world, life becomes so all-consuming we loose or smother the natural wonder of ‘who are we, where do we come from, what is our history’ and investigation stops. Then the systems of control have done a very good job – they’ve created a whole army of people that will just parrot their conditioning and fight anyone who wants to challenge it to uphold it.

LOL! Thanks for sharing Jenny, that’s hilarious.

I also loved the ‘Surveyors’ story, never heard that one before.

It’s incredible that modern science officially still tries to explain things like sweet potatoes (a crop native to the Americas) being brought to places like NZ prior to the currently accepted dates of cultural exchange as “having floated across the ocean”… Every time I think about the fact I’ve read this as an official proposed explanation, I can’t get the image of a poor lonely sweet potato detaching itself from its pile, floating all the way across the ocean’s salt water and waves, arriving intact, and then being picked up by a person who’s allegedly never seen a sweet potato before, who then knows what it is and just how to plant it and turns it into a local staple… That’s the official explanation we are meant to accept 😀 Not sure what’s sillier — that, or the rat that ate carbon that’s thousands of years old (hence ancient dating) or the artifacts that drop thorough imaginary magical crevasses in the earth to explain anomalous artifact dating deep in the strata… I’m really beginning to think science is turning into a bad comedy sketch.

Sad to hear about the cultural narratives of the New Zealanders being tossed into the “fiction” pile :/

Me too! It seems a bit like hobbiton, meets avatar, meets ancient stories and myths, meets New Zealand’s beautiful nature. 🙂 From the few minutes I watched it seemed very ‘open minded’, but I think that might be good because sometimes you need to open up to some new views in order to reach a more balanced total view. But maybe I should actually watch it first before commenting on it 🙂

Thanks for the share.