I'll never understand why people can't watch a TV show or a movie and just be entertained for 90 minutes or so. Dear Earthlings, not everything has to have deep meaning, make sense or even be believable. This show is malarkey, fine, what do you care?
I'm not saying you shouldn't challenge the beliefs of this show but in my opinion it's equivalent to challenging the happenings in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
"A stitch in time, saves your embarrassment." (RIP Ms. Penny LoBello)
The biggest problem is though, that this is shown on the History Channel, and later H2 (even though i watched every ep through web streams and downloads).
This is similar to low quality shows on Discovery, the channels have lost most of their educational values.
Adding shows like these turns the scientific educational part to almost the opposite, willingly spreading wild stories and speculations.
On the other hand, i greatly enjoy watching this show, so im not really complaining, especially since i cherrypick what i want to watch, i dont leave the TV on all day, i actually havent watched regular TV in years.
Last nights episode really infuriated me though, not because of the AA people, but by seeing isis terrorists destroying ancient art and buildings.
If we somehow lost all of the important ancient relics, we would lose our tangible connection with our mysterious past. That genuinely upsets me thinking about that.
I really hope there wont be a time where old art and relics are deemed evil and need to be eradicated, as if it was Fahrenheit 451.
As "evil" or violent, or morally wrong as our ancestors were, their societies still added and raised important questions and answers to our collective search for our meaning and purpose. Their stone carved symbolisms and architecture are not yet fully explored or understood and sometimes can be quite beautiful despite their bloody past.
Modern architecture is either loosely inspired by ancient culture, or just efficiently made for massproduction.
The origins of our artifacts are well documented, technological advancements are rationally explained. Our current lifestyle has little mystery to be explained, other than the prolonged questions to our origins.
So while i can sorta understand why people destroy relics, to erase their current enemy's grasp of visual dominance over the territory.
It just seemed really futile, immature and evil to destroy such old relics like these, have some respect at least... really painful and shameful.
EDIT: although i have to admit, our ancestors went through similar phases too, destroying old traditions, creating new beliefs, new structures.
We do create some magnificent buildings today too and slowly we understand more about life and the Universe, this is eventually just like any other moment in our history.
Our ancestors didnt really have any answers either it seems, but i would find it very disappointing if we deliberately would close these windows into the past.
If we really want to take responsibility for our evil deeds as a race, we would need a world wide clean slate, level the whole place and reset the clock.
Cant afford to be picky if you really want to make a change.
DethstruXioN - As "evil" or violent, or morally wrong as our ancestors were, their societies still added and raised important questions and answers to our collective search for our meaning and purpose. Their stone carved symbolisms and architecture are not yet fully explored or understood and sometimes can be quite beautiful despite their bloody past.
DethstruXioN - This is similar to low quality shows on Discovery, the channels have lost most of their educational values. Adding shows like these turns the scientific educational part to almost the opposite, willingly spreading wild stories and speculations.
Well well..
Surely there must be a distinction between archaeology and studying and appreciating the ancient architecture, and ancient aliens (with theories about zombie-alien connections, nazi and aliens etc).
Sorry to have triggered you.
Ive grown tired of your "calling out" shtick, this is the last interaction between us.
no no my friend its EXCELLENT entertainment 😀
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by DethstruXioN » Well well..
Surely there must be a distinction between archaeology and studying and appreciating the ancient architecture, and ancient aliens (with theories about zombie-alien connections, nazi and aliens etc).
Sorry to have triggered you. Ive grown tired of your "calling out" shtick, this is the last interaction between us.
Dear EarthlingsGo fu.
I agree, it's entertainment, for those people who spent their primary and secondary "academic careers" in the back of classrooms napping or picking their noses and flicking the products at classmates.
This wouldn't present a problem except that because enough class clowns combine to tune in to this nonsense, networks like THC don't feel compelled to produce programs that actually have something to do with, well, HISTORY, as its name suggests. Most of its current programming these days would be more suited to or appropriate for Comedy Central.
The same is true of TLC; there's virtually no learning or teaching associated with that network any longer. The LEARNING Channel seems devoid of educational and intellectual content. In fact, if anything is true of its programming, it's that it is counter-productive; it actually contributes to the dumbing down of society.
I'm not against stupid entertainment, though; it has its place. That being the case, simply add another network to the alphabet soup for this kind of programming, and name it accordingly.