Get woke, go pseudoscientific

Here a woke journalist applies his warped perspective to fascinating ancient archaeology.

The woke aspects are minimal and brief, yet jarringly inappropriate as Graham Hancock tries to shoehorn his ancient history theories into support for his woke political beliefs.

He worked as a journalist for The Guardian, The Independent, and the Economist (cough, Communist), among other Leftist publications. Turning his woke-ified brain to archaeology, he has posited theories such as that the ancients used telekinesis to build monolithic structures. Thankfully, he omitted his most extreme theories like this from the show.

The thesis of the show is that there was some advanced and apparently nearly global civilization that has been lost to time and rising sea levels. He shows good (already known) evidence that civilization arose earlier than conventional wisdom once held. However, I see no good evidence for his assertion that a lost mother civilization seeded the whole world with knowledge. His argument hinges on similarities in symbols and mythology in the Old and New World. For example, pyramids are found around the world, and the local legends usually say they were built by giants. I mean, what do you expect the legends to say? And pyramids are the easiest way for primitive civilizations to build high. (He does bring up this counterpoint, but argues against it.)

Graham spends much of the show defending himself from Wikipedia and others that attack his character. The Serpent Mounds park in Ohio would not even let him film there, citing basically that he is a quack, LOL. His woke-ism causes him to value his feelings above all, REEEEEEing at archaeologists, who somehow will only accept physical evidence and not emotional arguments.

Now, there is nothing wrong with thinking outside the box. And I am sometimes willing to go against everyone's opinion. I just think Graham Hancock needs to be smarter, more logical, more skeptical, less emphatic, and less woke to make a TV show worth viewing.

Note that this is a Netflix show, and Hancock's son is Netflix's head of unscripted documentaries, LOL.

Minus the wild theories, the subject matter is truly great, and may get you thinking. Best to hunt down real documentaries, though.