Survivor in a Time of Chaos

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Graham Hancock lays out his hypothesis citing examples of shared mythologies among ancient cultures worldwide. How often we've heard this story from cultures that supposedly had no connection with ancient Mexico the setting is always the same there has been a giant cataclysm the world has been plunged into darkness floods chaos everywhere society is collapsing. Out of the darkness appears a figure who has knowledge of what is necessary to make a civilization and that figure teaches the demoralized survivors how to start civilization again.

On this Live Show Beg-a-Thon, recorded on May 17, we discuss the pop culture phenomenon and appeal of pseudoarchaeology in its many forms, from fraudulent alternative history books like Erich von Däniken's 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, to television series like "Ancient Aliens" and "Ancient Apocalypse."

Alongside guest Dr. David S. Anderson, we discuss how phony "what if?" theories often go beyond the goofy, guilty pleasure premises of extraterrestrial visitors and lost civilizations to promote Eurocentric, racist pap and a mindless distrust of "the scientific establishment" in the stupidest and least productive way possible.