So
today was the first time in forever that I have watched the history channel,
and even though there are a lot of memes online referencing the Ancient Aliens
dude about how he thinks that aliens have done everything in history that we
humans have ever done or accomplished is done by aliens, he does have a couple
good points, though I do not necessarily agree with him on all points.
Something people need to realize too though is the fact that the show is called
Ancient Aliens, so of course he is going to try to relate everything he can to
aliens, anything for the views, am I right? I am especially looking at you MTV,
which hardly even have music videos anymore.
One of
the reasons that I think some of the points they have can be true is because
there are a lot of things in history that cannot be explained, or at least are
kind of far-fetched or difficult to explain. One of the points was that the
method of writing at first was used to record history or events that were
currently happening or had happened. This would mean that the early writings
should mostly be true, and that their “legendary weapons” recorded should be
true then. A main reason why people I think do not believe this is because they
do not want to admit that the past civilizations, to which we often refer to as
brutes, were more advanced than us due to an outside influence. If these people
are anything like me or most teenagers today, they would not like to be
compared to their parents then be told that their parents had done exactly what
they were doing in school, just many ages ago. Currently, many humans think of
themselves as the pinnacle of evolution and they are literally god’s greatest
gift to humanity. Literally just go to a social networking site or an online
chat room, you will nearly immediately see someone who is toxic because he
thinks he is the best.
This is
also another reason why I hate people who tell exactly the same joke that they
heard from someone else but then try to pass it off as their own, particularly
the internet. Being the stereotypical Asian that I am, I browse through the
internet a lot and I see many people at my school who try to take a funny
anecdote from the internet and try to pass it off as something that happened to
them. I occasionally do this, but I always start off the story with, “Have you
seen the one post online that said…?” and take it from there, I give them a bit
of credit.