Too Much Ado About Atlantis

Plato’s myth actually begins with the account of Solon’s diplomatic visit to Sais and what its priests told him of antiquity. Their account centers on a mysterious sea people raiding the eastern shores of the Mediterranean with seemingly military precision. It was assumed they came from beyond the Pillars of Heracles which was the terra incognito of the time. Inspired by this mystery, Plato embellishes this with the idea of Atlantis, a prestigious Neptunian nether realm of demi-gods that fall in disfavour with their creators.

Romanticists like to believe Atlantis actually existed before the alleged great flood; an esoteric utopia of super humans from which all civilization allegedly spawned. From the Russian perspective, there is Tartaria, and from the American; Ignatius Donnally’s flights of fantasy, trying to assume the Mayans and Egyptians had anything to do with each other. Then there’s Helena Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine of some genealogically white master race. The list of esoterics that followed this trend is endless to this day, with people like Graham Hancock trying to assume some magical cosmic connection between every megalithic build he can find, oblivious to the undertones of colonizer supremacism that motivates this fantasy. All the symptoms of classical old school imperialism.

The priests’ reference to the primordial great flood is actually a creation myth of humanity’s first appearance, and not necessarily the domain of these sea people. It is a reference to Egyptian records being kept of the known world since antiquity. According to these, flood and famine have been seen to recur in random cycles and in their wake; catastrophe. There is no mention of knowledge or commodities being shared or traded by these sea people. They came out of nowhere in hoards until they were subsequently defeated by the pharaoh’s armies. The End.

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Back in the days of patriarchal empire building, so-called “authorities” inclined to believe in some godsent supremacy of certain genealogical orders, albeit the hierarchies of gentry or their military wannabes. One can easily blame it on the enforcement of Christianity, born out of Greco-Roman assumptions of what qualifies as civilized, but that does not imply that a matriarchy or any other ideology would have fared better; rather, like most unbridled impulses, has more to do with the insatiable desire for utmost sexual gratification. That’s just the way it is with simian hierarchies, only we have advanced it way beyond anything natural selection would allow. It’s all about being feared, loved and worshiped in the strangest ways, hoarding wealth, attention and above all- authority. To be lord and master, where all else should have no other purpose, nor any will to live except for the one and only.

Science says the Y chromosome is slowly disappearing. Then there’s people like Musk trying to breed himself a workforce to do his bidding, to colonize a dying world that didn’t make it far as a biome, being too close to a major Kirkwood gap. For all the cataclysms, it lacks the fluid dynamics for terraforming to even be sustainable. That’s aside the fact that encapsulated ecosystems also tend to fail without a dynamic microbiology.

Then there’s the new agers who want to believe in some Atlantean utopia of supreme beings, if not surreptitiously bred by whatever aliens. Some even claim to receive cosmic messages from stars only just formed from the incongruous masses of cosmic gases and dust. By now, enough has been discovered around our planet to tangibly trace each and every track record of human culture back to its simian origins. Say nothing that the ancient aliens tripe has no idea just how vast a light year is, let alone the temporality effects of going light speed. Yet we still have these delusionals clinging onto old school imperial thought like it’s a new drug vis-a-vis religion. If there’s any truth to the stories about the “Grays”, I have my suspicions that they’re the cloned throwbacks from a likely future of human extinction.

Get a real life, get therapy.