I find this person voice and attitude too annoying. I’m sure he has some good points to make but I cannot sit and listen to his videos for a long duration.
I forced myself to watch this shit a few months back and the biggest annoyance I had was that he would constantly bring up ‘big archaeology’ in the same way that we’d talk about big pharma. Yes Graham, a global cabal of massively underpaid and underfunded archaeologists are hiding shit from you. Fuck off.
He also does a great job of glossing over the fact that if this mega advanced pre-ice age civilization existed we would’ve fucking found something by now. Jesus.
I think Hancock is a very intelligent guy. He’s traveled to these places and it’s had a tremendous impact on him. However, he’s used instinct and his own imagination to form opinions instead of real science. Real science is a protracted endeavor and boring. It’s easier for a layman to endorse Hancock’s more exciting theories rather than something more droll. That said, I still find some theories raised by Hancock and people like him interesting. They don’t normally hold up after further research however.
He makes some good points but I do think archaeologists tend to over estimate the certainty of some of their finds. From the tiniest find they’ll extratroplate and then make grand explanations when really it’s just speculative at best. Uncertainty just doesn’t sell books people don’t want to hear that we really have no idea about a lot of this stuff.
I’ve watched some Hancock. He draws some very long bows with some of his claims about astronomical alignments. You can make anything look like it’s astronomically aligned if you cherry-pick the points that happen to match some stars. That annoys me. He is right though about the ‘mainstream’ model of when we started building complex structures. Prevailing ideas about when we stopped being hunter-gatherers are way off, as evidenced by things like Göbekli Tepe. Archaeology can be very dogmatic and nobody likes finding out they’ve been wrong about something for their entire career. But the theory about the ancient advanced civilisation that got wiped out by the Younger Dryas flood is just speculation – you don’t need an ancient advanced civilisation to tell you how to carve stones. I think the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. We may have been knocked back somewhat by the floods but we probably didn’t really lose much in terms of technology.
Archeologists still claiming the great pyramid was a tomb based on very crude evidence. Graham Hancock doesn’t make assertions, but presents a different viewpoint and asks some important questions. The method of constructing megalithic structures is still very much a mystery and not properly explained even today. I think there’s nothing wrong with gaining more insight on these marvellous ancient structures by consulting other fields of expertise, such as engineers and modern stone masons, and not just leaving all speculation in the hands of archeologists. The precision of some of these structures, the symmetry, the scale…it leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
He’s definitely dramatic about “mainstream archeology”, and it’s absolutely not a scientifically rigorous kind of show, if I had to bet I’d say he’s probably not right about some global lost civilization, but for me, things like this add a sense of wonder and mystery to a world that can be soul crushingly routine. I don’t personally see the show as some gateway drug to pseudo science, although I understand that perspective. I see it more as an invitation to explore the breathtaking awe of the deep past, and embrace that we don’t know everything about it. There are plenty of valid criticisms, but that’s my take. It brought me joy even while being skeptical of his claims. It can be both. I will say, if he straight up lied about things, that does make me sad.
I love reading the pompous drivel made by ignorant minds that tend to flood threads like this.
Always makes me feel lucky and special, knowing that I have the aptitude and comprehension to actually understand Hancock’s credible assertions backed by heaps of evidence.
Yay!! I’ve been waiting for you to do this one! Love to watch you debunk pseudo archaeology! Please do a video on Pyramid K at some point in the future! My husband is convinced that the ancient Egyptians used a high powered lens to capture the sun’s energy to melt granite stones. They learned this skill from the Atlanteans. If I roll my eyes any harder I’m gonna go blind.
Graham Hancock is a racist history revisionist who believes white peoples come from Atlantis and have always been the technologically superior humans on earth. Massive POS that doesn’t deserve screen time
The most compelling component of Hancock’s series is the omnipresent Flood Myth that seems to exist in most cultures. That alone seems to suggest that those stories were originally a fanciful record of events, but over time and as generations passed, they became just stories.
“I watched this so you don’t have to” is one the worst headlines you can hear. Putting my faith in one person (who has biases) instead of watching the source content for myself to make a decision. What’s scarier than any silly Graham Hancock hypothesis is your willingness to impress your biases on people and present it as truth in hopes to suppress people from watching the content for themselves.
I have no issues with how he’s approaching the content and I’m sure the rest of the video is interesting. However, I feel like he’s shouting and maxing out his levels. At a few points you can hear him hitting the ceiling of his levels. Couldn’t get past the first couple of minutes despite being intrigued by his opening question.
I watched his Netflix show and quite enjoyed it….as a work of fiction.
Hancock has come up with a theory based on a few unexplained oddities or coincidences in the historical record. He has spent decades looking for evidence to support this theory while ignoring anything that contradicts it (and there is a lot).
The first episode set the pattern for the rest of the series. He went to a site that was quite odd in some ways and had produced a few strange geophysical surveys. He used this as supporting evidence for his pre-history civilisation when there was no evidence at all for this.
Another he went to what appears to be a man made hill in south America. Using nothing but his imagination he declares there is a 20,000 year old pyramid buried underneath it.
Graham Hancock is sort of like the JRE podcast. It is dumb and mostly bullshit but it sparks interest in really amazing things.
The movements of ancient peoples and when they arrived at various places keeps getting pushed farther and farther back in the timeline, the idea that many ancient coastal settlements got flooded by rising tides is neat, and the insane engineering of ancient peoples never ceases to amaze me.
So even though he is full of shit and often is either getting things outright wrong or picking and choosing which facts to present I am glad I found him as a young person.
My wife and I watched this series on Netflix and were both pretty skeptical. I think this vid cuts through all the bullshit.
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EDIT: I did not make this video. A lot of people seem to think I did. I’m just a dude that posted it here.
& who watched this so I don’t have to?
Can we drop the “I did x so you don’t have to”? No one has to watch garbage on Netflix and no one has to watch this
Great, now work on your sound. It’s far more important than video.
I find this person voice and attitude too annoying. I’m sure he has some good points to make but I cannot sit and listen to his videos for a long duration.
Most of that crap is just made up shit. “this one rock here? It was the same used by aliens to build the pyramids on the other side of the world”.
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Mormon level lunacy.
I forced myself to watch this shit a few months back and the biggest annoyance I had was that he would constantly bring up ‘big archaeology’ in the same way that we’d talk about big pharma. Yes Graham, a global cabal of massively underpaid and underfunded archaeologists are hiding shit from you. Fuck off.
He also does a great job of glossing over the fact that if this mega advanced pre-ice age civilization existed we would’ve fucking found something by now. Jesus.
I think Hancock is a very intelligent guy. He’s traveled to these places and it’s had a tremendous impact on him. However, he’s used instinct and his own imagination to form opinions instead of real science. Real science is a protracted endeavor and boring. It’s easier for a layman to endorse Hancock’s more exciting theories rather than something more droll. That said, I still find some theories raised by Hancock and people like him interesting. They don’t normally hold up after further research however.
This presenter can’t even spell hydrated. Not the brightest.
Oh I tried to watch it as well. I couldn’t get past 2 episodes. It’s such speculative and made-up bullshit.
Isn’t this show basically like Ancient Aliens?
He makes some good points but I do think archaeologists tend to over estimate the certainty of some of their finds. From the tiniest find they’ll extratroplate and then make grand explanations when really it’s just speculative at best. Uncertainty just doesn’t sell books people don’t want to hear that we really have no idea about a lot of this stuff.
I’ve watched some Hancock. He draws some very long bows with some of his claims about astronomical alignments. You can make anything look like it’s astronomically aligned if you cherry-pick the points that happen to match some stars. That annoys me. He is right though about the ‘mainstream’ model of when we started building complex structures. Prevailing ideas about when we stopped being hunter-gatherers are way off, as evidenced by things like Göbekli Tepe. Archaeology can be very dogmatic and nobody likes finding out they’ve been wrong about something for their entire career. But the theory about the ancient advanced civilisation that got wiped out by the Younger Dryas flood is just speculation – you don’t need an ancient advanced civilisation to tell you how to carve stones. I think the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. We may have been knocked back somewhat by the floods but we probably didn’t really lose much in terms of technology.
Graham Hancock’s son is apparently “a senior manager of unscripted originals at Netflix” (https://variety.com/exec/sean-hancock/).
Might have something to do with pile of anti-intellectual bullshit being given a platform to mislead.
Speculating is fun. Dreaming is fun. But don’t try to present it as facts.
Archeologists still claiming the great pyramid was a tomb based on very crude evidence. Graham Hancock doesn’t make assertions, but presents a different viewpoint and asks some important questions. The method of constructing megalithic structures is still very much a mystery and not properly explained even today. I think there’s nothing wrong with gaining more insight on these marvellous ancient structures by consulting other fields of expertise, such as engineers and modern stone masons, and not just leaving all speculation in the hands of archeologists. The precision of some of these structures, the symmetry, the scale…it leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
He’s definitely dramatic about “mainstream archeology”, and it’s absolutely not a scientifically rigorous kind of show, if I had to bet I’d say he’s probably not right about some global lost civilization, but for me, things like this add a sense of wonder and mystery to a world that can be soul crushingly routine. I don’t personally see the show as some gateway drug to pseudo science, although I understand that perspective. I see it more as an invitation to explore the breathtaking awe of the deep past, and embrace that we don’t know everything about it. There are plenty of valid criticisms, but that’s my take. It brought me joy even while being skeptical of his claims. It can be both. I will say, if he straight up lied about things, that does make me sad.
I love reading the pompous drivel made by ignorant minds that tend to flood threads like this.
Always makes me feel lucky and special, knowing that I have the aptitude and comprehension to actually understand Hancock’s credible assertions backed by heaps of evidence.
Fast forwarded thru most. Just enjoyed the locations actually. Some interesting places. Facts be damned.
He’s not establishment and he criticizes geologists and historians as a group. He has his own theories, it’s an alternative perspective. Get over it.
Yay!! I’ve been waiting for you to do this one! Love to watch you debunk pseudo archaeology! Please do a video on Pyramid K at some point in the future! My husband is convinced that the ancient Egyptians used a high powered lens to capture the sun’s energy to melt granite stones. They learned this skill from the Atlanteans. If I roll my eyes any harder I’m gonna go blind.
So did Potholer54
https://youtu.be/zU-wQVAqQnk
Remindme! 5 years How dumb does this video look now?
Graham Hancock is a racist history revisionist who believes white peoples come from Atlantis and have always been the technologically superior humans on earth. Massive POS that doesn’t deserve screen time
The most compelling component of Hancock’s series is the omnipresent Flood Myth that seems to exist in most cultures. That alone seems to suggest that those stories were originally a fanciful record of events, but over time and as generations passed, they became just stories.
“I watched this so you don’t have to” is one the worst headlines you can hear. Putting my faith in one person (who has biases) instead of watching the source content for myself to make a decision. What’s scarier than any silly Graham Hancock hypothesis is your willingness to impress your biases on people and present it as truth in hopes to suppress people from watching the content for themselves.
Just watch it if you want to, it’s entertaining.
Haven’t you had enough of the eXpErTs telling you what you what is DANGEROUS and should avoid?
I have no issues with how he’s approaching the content and I’m sure the rest of the video is interesting. However, I feel like he’s shouting and maxing out his levels. At a few points you can hear him hitting the ceiling of his levels. Couldn’t get past the first couple of minutes despite being intrigued by his opening question.
I watched his Netflix show and quite enjoyed it….as a work of fiction.
Hancock has come up with a theory based on a few unexplained oddities or coincidences in the historical record. He has spent decades looking for evidence to support this theory while ignoring anything that contradicts it (and there is a lot).
The first episode set the pattern for the rest of the series. He went to a site that was quite odd in some ways and had produced a few strange geophysical surveys. He used this as supporting evidence for his pre-history civilisation when there was no evidence at all for this.
Another he went to what appears to be a man made hill in south America. Using nothing but his imagination he declares there is a 20,000 year old pyramid buried underneath it.
Yesterday called.
This would have been good to watch if it would have been shot and posted months ago when the show hit Netflix, not months after.
Graham Hancock is sort of like the JRE podcast. It is dumb and mostly bullshit but it sparks interest in really amazing things.
The movements of ancient peoples and when they arrived at various places keeps getting pushed farther and farther back in the timeline, the idea that many ancient coastal settlements got flooded by rising tides is neat, and the insane engineering of ancient peoples never ceases to amaze me.
So even though he is full of shit and often is either getting things outright wrong or picking and choosing which facts to present I am glad I found him as a young person.
> I watched this so you don’t have to
> 54 minute video
that’s gonna be a no from me dawg