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John Hoopes

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Nov 29

Matt Walsh has a bunch of questions about Graham Hancock’s #AncientApocalypse. Can we help answer them?

“What in the world makes it racist?” he asks, and says that’s never explained.

In Episode 2, Graham Hancock suggests that Quetzalcoatl and Viracocha were survivors of a lost civilization who taught “simple hunters and gatherers” how to farm and build pyramids. They became gods.

Although Hancock avoids saying these culture heroes were white in #AncientApocalypse, he made that clear in his book “Fingerprints of the Gods” (1995), the title of which refers to these supposed white saviors of inferior brown people. Is that a racist scenario? I think so.

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John Hoopes

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Nov 28

I was disappointed that “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” didn’t draw more heavily upon the Maya murals of Bonampak. The lobster guy from the North Wall in Room 1 deserves a scene or two in the next film about Tlalokan.

If it had been up to me, I would have had a scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with Namor cliff-diving into the Cenote Ik’kil at Chichén Itzá.

Given all of the gold dredged from the Sacred Cenote, it would have been historically accurate for Namor to wear a flashy gold disk in his chest as well as other gold jewelry. I would have dressed him that way.

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John Hoopes

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Nov 28

I finally watched “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” It was fun to see several scenes that featured MIT and Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA.

One of the things that annoyed me in “Wakanda Forever” as it does in real life: when Namor introduced himself to Princess Shuri, he clearly pronounced his name as “NahMORE,” but for the rest of the movie she and the other Wakandans pronounce it as “NAYmore.”

Get it right, peeps.

To my knowledge, they never saw it spelled; they only heard it spoken.

This is a pet peeve of mine because my own last name is pronounced with a “oo” as in “books,” but when people ask me to spell it for them, they repeat it back to me with a “oo” as in “loops.”

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John Hoopes

@KUHoopes

Nov 27

https://twitter.com/Graham__Hancock/status/1596958466069102593

Graham Hancock goes on the defensive, calling archaeologists “hysterical” and invoking “sock puppets.”

Also Hancock: “In the academic world we do not do ad hominem arguments.” 😂

https://twitter.com/Graham__Hancock/status/1596958466069102593

The video.

The funniest thing about this is Graham Hancock implying that he is “in the academic world,” which he decidedly is not.

He seems to think he is “in the academic world” when it’s convenient and then dismisses it when it’s not.

You know, like how he uses archaeology.

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John Hoopes

@KUHoopes

Nov 17

One of the debates in archaeology right now is about the origins of “urbanism”. Some identify Neolithic/Chalcolithic sites such as Nebelivka in Ukraine as among the first places where urbanism occurred, but most people have never even heard of it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelivka…

The site of Talianki, in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, was the location of a major settlement of the ancient Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, dating to around 3800 BCE. It is currently the largest-known Neolithic settlement in all of Europe.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talianki_…

Questions about urbanism extend to Amazonia, where archaeologist Michael Heckenberger and his colleagues have identified Kuhikugu and connected sites in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil as a center of pre-European, Indigenous urbanism.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhikugu

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John Hoopes

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Nov 17

@KurlyTlapoyawa

Remember when the world was going to end on December 21, 2012?

Remember when we were all going to experience a transformation of consciousness?

It’s been ten years. What happened?

My chat with @KurlyTlapoyawa and @tlakatekatl
#AncientApocalypse
talesfromaztlantis.com/?episode=episo…

Graham Hancock was a huge booster of the imaginary Maya Apocalypse prophecy, dedicating many pages to it in “Fingerprints of the Gods” (1995), which contributed to a counterculture mythology that began in the 1960s and 1970s.
#AncientApocalypse
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/realit…

This excellent book, edited by Joseph Gelfer, was finally published in 2011, but hardly anyone read it. Most of it had been written in 2009, but publication was delayed.

The #AncientApocalypse is yet another #CountercultureApocalypse, but on Netflix.

amazon.com/2012-Countercu…

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