The Real Great Reset Is the Reset of History
When you dig up an ancient grave and move to findings to an archive, someday the archive will go up in flames, or an end of funding with see the artifacts rot away. Modern preservation only works as well as the people willing to preserve things for posterity.
If cities such as London or Paris were, one day, to go up in flames, or to be abandoned, what will happen to all of its museums’ collections? Much may be plundered and discarded, and very little will survive the centuries, let alone thousands of years.
The point is, the archeologists of the modern Western age have effectively erased the histories that were recorded by our world’s soil. All digitalis copies, too, may simply disappear once the internet or electricity is shut off. Hard drives might not survive more than a few decades.
It’s easy to see where this may lead: to the reset of history itself. Were modern civilizations to be hit by something atomic or otherwise globally destructive, the history we so carefully meant to restore will also be lost for good.
Then again, the very notion of preserving the past is (or was) a Western invention. China, for example, prefers to forget the past and doesn’t allow anyone to dig up any more imperial tombs. The past is best preserved where it lies.
The terracotta armies, in full color, when first dug up, have already lost their paint and have started to crumble. But China has many more such armies hidden underground. It is a wise decision of our Eastern cousins not to stir the soil, so to speak, nor to disturb the dead.
But Western history will be lost forever. The more we dig, the more we find, the less is left for posterity. The grand collections in our archives, museums, and private armories are not safe. The sands of time will eventually wither away everything dug up.
Are we going to put everything back into the ground, then, neatly arranged in time-resistant, airtight cocoons? Probably not. Too much effort. No public support. And imagine what future archeologists might think of us seeing that we dug up our own past only to bury her again!
Of course, digging up the past was the very hallmark of modern civilization. We went looking for a soul we felt we were lacking. We dug up ancient Greek scrolls to give ourselves a philosophy. We dug up Roman bathhouses to imagine ourselves civilized.
We also dug up mass graves, but were clever to blame the victims for their primitive understanding of life. If only they had been more enlightened, like the Greeks we copied or the Romans we mimicked.
Digging for the past, we also struck oil, coal, diamonds and gold, and all such things in large quantities, too. These findings never satisfied our greed for more. We are childlike, still, never knowing when it’s time for bed, not wanting to carry any responsibility, now trying to fix things by “going green”. It’s just to make ourselves look good.
The past can also easily be abused. At Bad Dürrenberg, a 9,000-year-old body was found holding a baby. At first, it was thought to be the body of a man. Later, it was changed into a woman. First, damage to a neck vertebra was considered evidence of murder by stabbing. Next, it was thought to be a natural condition, allowing the victim to control levels of consciousness but tilting the head and cutting off blood. From buffed teeth, it was concluded the victim died of infection. First, artifacts found in his/her grave were thought to be rubbish. Then, an artist put the artifacts together into a shamanic headdress.
The list goes on and on, and so, a “powerful woman” was created, namely to support the thesis that ancient Europe was “always ruled by women”. Here are the obvious problems: 1) the artifacts were scattered throughout the grave and didn’t seem to form a whole, i.e., no headdress; 2) if it’s so hard to determine what is or isn’t a female skeleton, why not do a DNA test to find (lack of) Y-chromosomal material? No test was done; 3) One cannot be sure that the teeth were buffed before death rather than after death, and one cannot establish that an infection thereof leads to the death of the person and the child; 4) the neck problem might not have affected consciousness at all.
You see, this is all speculation, not objectively established fact. It does, however, point to the possibility of a deliberate re-interpreting of the original findings, namely, to support the “shamanic powerful women ruled Europe” theory. But the notion of powerful people in the Mesolithic age itself is ludicrous. People hadn’t even invented horse-riding yet. All distance had to be traveled on foot. How many people does one truly influence if one can never venture farther than 10–20 miles from one’s homestead? Oh, but the one or other individual did travel far. But the majority didn’t!
People lived in small families and didn’t mingle in crowds. There was no newspaper. At best, the man/woman in question was a loved one. At worst, the man/woman was a victim of some crime. None of it offers any evidence of shamanism in Europe, not of women ruling Europe, nor of men ruling Europe, either.
In my opinion, the Mesolithic age was marked by an absence of power. People were either strong enough to face nature, or they perished. Whatever power struggles existed were limited to one’s own family. The modern notion of ‘power’ is a projection formulated by political leftists, often urbanites, who have been weakened by physically inactive city life, overcompensating for a meaningful life with sex, drugs, and other forms of escapism.
History is history, but our interpretations of it vary from day to day and from researcher to researcher. At this point, history serves no other purpose than to find support for a made-up political doctrine. And soon, history will disappear altogether, for the European continent has been stripped bare of its archeological remnants. When our civilization collapses, history will have to start over from scratch.