Much of our modern world depends on selling the future. When selling anything from mortgages to new medication, the latest vacuum cleaner or tickets to a luxury cruise, the promise of a better future – progress, happiness, comfort, a higher state of well-being – is a prerequisite. Yet all of these offerings quickly lose their appeal when studying the prosperous People of the Past, who had abilities and technologies that can not be reproduced today. Where did they go?
A growing group of historical researchers is currently surveying an Old World where artistic and technological skills were much more advanced than ours.(1) Their evidence unveals that the general, dominant historiography in our books, schools, museums and elsewhere, is absurd and cartoonish; that it is an impossible, erroneous history that clashes not only with facts but with observation, intuition and logic.
The Builders of the Past were part of one people, they have left their trademarks all over Earth: pyramids, Corinthian pillars, star forts, buildings with nubs, roads and bridges with clamps and hundreds of other traces that are not limited to geographical regions, kingdoms or empires. General historiography rarely gives us answers, but when it does, it is giving us dates and explanations for these structures that do not and can not make sense. One of countless other problematic aspects is that, in the 1960s particularly, many Old World buildings were demolished without explanation or justification and replaced with inferior construction or nothing at all.(2)
On this topic of the Old World there has been very little debate, because there simply is not enough evidence supporting the current general historiography – there is no counterargument. The only requirement for enhancing our understanding is more attention, not only from historical researchers but from each individual; to zoom out, to think not in terms of countries or cultures or generations, but in terms of civilizations: groups of people at a certain stage of development. Where have the People of the Past gone and how and why and when? The idea of regression, that we are poorer, sicker, worse off and further detached from nature than humans once were, is only considered by those who have seen, really seen, the structures, architecture, postcards, drawings, photos and maps.(3)
I’ve got a feeling that just won’t quit, this world is using you and me.
Queen, Action This Day, 1982
A false present can only be sustained by a false past. Due to the ongoing political attempts to control historiography (4), and the destruction, cover-ups and plundering of so many ancient sites and libraries, we can not rule out that our present time is one of scraps and crumbs, that even the most impressive “Artificial Intelligence” or SpaceX rocket could be a display of technology taken out of the playbook of the People of the Past, to whom we will never measure up unless we dedicate a place for them in our hearts and minds and in our history.
(1) For instance: Jon Levi and David Edward, Evidence of the Old World (2023) as well as Jon Levi on YouTube.
(2) For instance: Chris Kelly, 101 Demolished Buildings in Old World America (2024).
(3) Challenge for a Civilized Society a website by Jeffrey van der Lugt.
(4) For instance the essay Darkening Europe’s Past by sociology professor Frank Furedi and publishings on the political control on educational book publishing.
