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Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse ruffles The Guardian - Eternalsky

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Interesting article and bang on, and yes it is connected to cult behavior that dovetails into the methods used by cult leaders to control the narrative by ridiculing and gas lighting those that undermine their power and control.
The recent MSM attacks on Graham Hancock is a glaring example of this.
Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse ruffles The Guardian - Eternalsky

You might have been surprised to see The Guardian turn its wrath on Graham Hancock and his Netflix show Ancient Apocalypse. Yet, this is just the latest attack on deep and original thinkers which has become a trend for this media group in the last decade. In 2014, The Guardian attacked The Lord of the Rings, suggesting that Tolkien got the heroes wrong… Gandalf is actually a “manipulative spin doctor” and instead, we should look up to the omniscient Sauron for “representing the liberal forces of science and industrialization”.

In 2017, Leslie Felperin, writing in The Guardian, gave a condescending and mean-spirited review of Bruce Parry’s documentary Tawai — which charts his quest to include the wisdom of indigenous groups into our modern worldview, as well as to protect their sovereignty and legal rights. Whilst Parry showed a deep care for human rights and ecological sustainability, The Guardian couldn’t see the wood for the trees. They even misspelled the name of the tribe Parry visited — the Penan — and failed to correct this disrespectful error even after repeated requests from readers to do so.

Then, in 2021, The Guardian called upon Stuart Ritchie (that “liberal force of science and industrialization”) to bash Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying’s book The Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century. The book was “pseudoscience”, The Guardian proclaimed… without evidencing their position (yes, the irony is lost on them). The “pseudoscience” canard — often wildly bereft of accuracy or appropriateness — has become a weapon used by the Ministry of Truth to discard and dismiss. It is positioned alongside other grossly overused and tiresome slogans in the orthodoxy’s toolbox — “anti-science”, “conspiracy theorist”, “threat to democracy” (again, yes, the irony is lost on them). Much like Ancient Apocalypse, it is precisely Weinstein and Heying’s deeply holistic and integrated exploration of the past which makes it truly investigative — truly scientific. Both Ancient Apocalypse and The Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century zoom out, attempt to see the wood for the trees, and ask better questions than the reductionist, narrow thinking which has come to predominate in the modern scientific age. As Ursula K. Le Guin cautioned, there can be no right answers to wrong questions.

What on earth is going on here? To the unwitting, The Guardian is a cuddly and caring refuge from the corruption and irrationality of the world. But, to those with a more critical eye, The Guardian is fast becoming the monster it once sought to slay — an ideologically-driven propaganda machine foisting Guard Rails of “acceptable thought”, corralling people onto the crazy train which is headed toward a dystopian, technocratic and globalist, world.

But why? Simply put, The Guardian no longer looks out for the ordinary man and woman (assuming it ever genuinely did). They have now become the guardians for the elite establishment class. You might be shocked to hear that the paper has funding relationships with the Ford, Rockefeller, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Welding billionaire paymasters onto cult-like ideological possession, today papers like The Guardian see themselves at the helm of the One True Ship — the gatekeeper — charting an unyielding course of snobbery and righteousness across a treacherous sea of unwelcome, pesky dissenters who still have independent ideas and uncaptured imaginations… many of its authors little more than junkies, mainlining ideological and technocratic talking points and projecting them out into the world.

Bari Weiss wrote about this unholy trend in her 2020 resignation letter to The New York Times (another establishment enclave), saying: “a new consensus has emerged in the press: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else”. Yet, humanity has been warned of this peril many times, and from different angles: Orwell’s 1984 tells of “thought police” who protect the political and ideological hegemony; religious sages warned us that Lucifer would come in the form of the unbridled intellectual arrogance of a secular intelligentsia; and, ironically, Tolkien mythologized evil as taking the form of the centralized, all-governing, all-seeing eye of Sauron.

Thus, anyone who deviates from the prescribed path — especially if they have enough of an outreach to encourage others into thinking differently — must be struck down. But how does public annihilation take place? By offer of debate, by providing countervailing evidence?

No, of course not. Instead of agreeing to disagree and conceding — however begrudgingly — that the public should at least be able to hear alternative perspectives, the regime resorts to doing what it knows best… to tarnish, to deride, to obfuscate, to lie. Ancient Apocalypse is “dangerous”. Sound familiar? Elon Musk is “dangerous” too. Joe Rogan is “dangerous”. Jordan Peterson is “dangerous”. The other political side is “dangerous”. The alternative media is “dangerous”. New paradigms in medicine and healthcare are “dangerous”. The list goes on.

But dangerous to who?

The regime. The almighty, all-encompassing, regime.

And so we get to the crux of why Ancient Apocalypse is so Wrong Think in the eyes of The Guardian. Its questioning of THE Science (with a capital ‘S’)? Certainly. Its ruffling of the orthodoxy’s stranglehold? Yes. Its invitation for viewers to think more for themselves and to come to some of their own conclusions? Undoubtedly. But, above all, Hancock’s biggest thought crime — his heresy and high treason — was to suggest that humanity’s gravest existential threat comes not from climate change, but from the Taurid Meteor stream.

Whilst a real issue, climate change has become the new religion — a political and ideological Trojan Horse exploited by a new order in order to usher in all sorts of restrictions, taxes, and technocratic impositions on the citizens of the world. Only the almighty can diagnose the problem, and only the almighty can prescribe the solution. And the regime demands cult-like acquiescence to the climate change hysteria. It is the only global disaster narrative allowed.

The Guardian are a miserable bunch. Whilst scoffing at the heartfelt attempts of writers and documentarians to honour indigenous cultures and ancient wisdom, the sad twist is that papers like The Guardian rely on tribalism of the worst kind — of ranting and raving, of rage and resentment — to bait, hook, and keep the public ensnared. Love is not their business model. Love doesn’t best generate clicks, drive politics, nor get eyeballs on screens.

The first irony is that Hancock shows a deep respect and reverence for the sites and cultures he investigates — the type of quiet wisdom and wholeheartedness which would do more than just about anything else to heal both the social and ecological problems of our world — what papers like The Guardian claim to be all for. The second irony is that, whilst the topic of climate change has become divisive and corruptible, Hancock’s greater concern — the Taurid Meteor stream — is something all of humanity could get behind. It is truly unifying and perspective-building. All governments would be incentivized to work together in order to avoid the danger out there in the cosmos… instead of squabbling about the reality of climate change or focusing their efforts on taxing, surveilling, shaming, controlling, and punishing their citizens in an effort to curb it.

But, tribalistic wrangling (Orwell’s perpetual war) is The Guardian’s bread and butter. To divide and conquer as people are too distracted, squabbling amongst themselves, to look up at the real enemy — the elites at the top. Either that or a burgeoning conformitarianism, where only one view on any given topic is “allowed” and “correct”. Indeed, why has the show Ancient Apocalypse even been “allowed”? — wrote Stuart Heritage for The Guardian. Note his Orwellian tone and appeal to authority.

One wonders whether The Guardian was ever on the peoples’ side. One wonders whether its writers will ever take pause from their venting and sulking to look up at the stars in awestruck reverence for the cosmos.

Alas, this is probably asking too much. Perhaps The Guardian belongs on the gutter levels of human existence — on the lower rungs of pettiness, vengeance, fear, and ego — vomiting it out into the world.

But perhaps they could at least get their priorities straight. For example, instead of obsessively condemning Alex Jones for saying some dumb shit — and reveling in his one billion dollar fine — perhaps they should give more airtime to Purdue Pharma and the Oxycontin fraud which resulted in the deaths of 45,000 Americans (and who got off with a far smaller fine than Alex Jones). Perhaps The Guardian should be less enraged by Trump’s tweets and more interested in how the Chinese government covered up the Coronavirus outbreak in 2019. Perhaps The Guardian could stop omitting information which would cool the corrosive flames of identity politics and the culture wars. Perhaps The Guardian could have been more skeptical and investigative of Big Pharma early on in the pandemic — rather than offering cursory criticism very late in the day when Pharma’s grotesque profits were already made and safely tucked away… when the horse had already bolted.

Incidentally — and bizarrely enough — The Guardian and Big Pharma share something in common. Just as Pharma is only interested in ongoing treatment (rather than prevention or cure) to generate maximum profits, The Guardian profits most in perpetual war — its journalistic lens endlessly ricocheting around symptoms and struggles, rather than addressing root causes and deep, visionary, solutions. Its outlook is narrow and shallow, dull and stultifying — never seeking resolution, never blossoming into evolution. Its once (perhaps) revolutionary spirit dead long ago, now The Guardian is transformed into a global megabrand. Of course, this paper still occasionally publishes brilliant and helpful articles — but it is the trend which is most impactful, not standalone pieces. Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day.

I will finish by reminding us all that healthy skepticism is good. True skeptics should be prized — but, sadly, they are few and far between in the establishment media class. God only knows what goes on in the media machine of papers like The Guardian… what dark money flows between hands, what shady influence shuffles down its corridors?

By way of analogy, all we can see is Bernie Madoff’s 19th floor — the pristine, the reputable, the law-abiding. But what should be of most interest is Madoff’s 17th floor, that opaque smoky underworld where arbiters hide in the shadows and creep like insidious vapours; where favours are exchanged, where editors and writers (incontestable, unelected, unreachable, and unaccountable) are nudged and swooned in a cesspit of sanctimony… where favourable algorithms and Google rankings ensure their ‘opinion’ pieces somehow remarkably always appear on the first page — thrust at everyone, whether they asked for it or not… the leviathan privilege and God-like power bestowed by global media platforms and gargantuan megaphones — unparalleled in all of human history — sucking like vampiric tentacles on the face of humanity.

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