Speculative Philosophy: Remembering Ancient History

If you're interested in the topics I cover on this blog, you'd probably like the work of Robert Sepehr who writes and produces YouTube videos on anthropology and human origins. One of his areas of interest is the story of the Aryans, which is a name he attributes to the Age of Aries (ca 2000BC) and the encoding of that history in mythology, specifically the story of Atlantis which he believes was the ancient home of the Aryan peoples.

The mythology is the basis for countless movies and TV shows, including Battlestar Galactica. A cataclysm destroyed the earlier civilization and sent the relatively advanced culture wandering in search of a new home, and at the end of the series, it reveals that humanity has been destroyed and made to wander again and again, and cultures clashed and mixed over and over. BSG even includes a cryptic reference to Rh+ and Rh- blood and a miracle of a human-cylon hybrid.

In our day, anthropological speculation is a fraught topic, because of political correctness and "REEEEEE" culture. A few decades ago, it was pretty commonplace and even mainstream, because ancient history and human origins is a necessarily speculative field of endeavor. There's no eyewitness accounts, and there are no records.

It's sort of weird there's even any orthodox or dogmatic interpretation, like the "Out of Africa" story, which was also speculation based on very scanty information, and has been debunked by DNA studies. Nobody really knows what happened. We don't even really know what happened in recorded history times. Roman histories, for example, are just the propaganda stories of elite families and wars. The "Out of Africa" orthodoxy is similar to that; it's propaganda from the civil rights era of the USA and served the needs of the crappy democratic party.

The speculation about Aryans and Atlantis has been used as propaganda for political purposes, also by the National Socialists, who wanted to use the myths and history as a basis for international alliances and to make supremacist and legalistic claims about land rights, the same way Empires like the French, Spanish, and British made ownership claims about the New World based on "discovery", and which, quite ironically are also the basis for grievance claims of contemporary victim-olympcs culture.

Speculation about history, from my point of view, falls in the genre of Speculative Philosophy and the attainment of a sort of shamanistic knowledge and inner journey. It's an internal, psychological archaeology that relates the inner world of fantasy to the real world. As a quest for knowledge it's got validity, but as a political tool, it's just more fodder for the world of lies.