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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8906001" data-attributes="member: 59082">LOL, I completely disagree about your take on Graham Hancock - which is clearly lacking in any actual exposure to his ideas, beyond (I'm guessing) a cursory viewing of a few minutes of his documentary. Hogwash, in other words!It is ironic that you accuse him of "baseless" theories and then (baselessly) accuse him of....white supremacy? If you actually read his books or saw any of his interviews, you'd realize he's not at all a white supremacist, nor does he ever say anything like "there's no way non-white people made this." Nor does he say anything about a hypothetical antediluvian civilization being "more white" or white at all. Yes, there was a trend among some 19th century alternate theorists to posit racists ideas, but does that mean all such theories are racist? That's just bad logic.Not to mention, the guy is married to a Malaysian woman, Santha Faiia.There's an irony, here. Hancock questions the official narrative which is itself based on the 19th century idea of the Myth of Progress, and a clear arc of "savagery to civilization" which, of course, culminated with (white) European high society of that era. Hancock is saying that history may occur more in cycles - like the ancients believed it did.Oh, and Hancock got a series because he's a popular author - lots of people read his books, he's a regular on Joe Rogan, etc etc. I'm sure his son working for Netflix helped, but the show is popular, so obviously it was merited.Anyhow, regardless of whether you're open to alternate theories or not, I don't see why it is so offensive that they're out there. It is really worrisome how intolerant some have become of different ways of thinking. People have different views on things, many of which aren't represented by the mainstream. Should streaming services only cater to "official" narratives? ("mainstreaming services?"). Or is diversity of perspectives still accepted? And what's wrong with considering alternate views on human history, especially when so such of history--especially prehistory--is theoretical?I mean, by your logic--cancelling Netflix because they have a show on that has ideas you don't agree with--you might as well put me on the ignore list, because I like and read Graham Hancock, and probably lots of other things that you'd find to be "conspiracy theories" and "nutty."</blockquote>

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