JASON COLAVITO
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Books
    • Legends of the Pyramids
    • The Mound Builder Myth
    • Jason and the Argonauts
    • Cult of Alien Gods >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Foundations of Atlantis
    • Knowing Fear >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Hideous Bit of Morbidity >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Cthulhu in World Mythology >
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
      • Necronomicon Fragments
      • Oral Histories
    • Fiction >
      • Short Stories
      • Free Fiction
    • JasonColavito.com Books >
      • Faking History
      • Unearthing the Truth
      • Critical Companion to Ancient Aliens
      • Studies in Ancient Astronautics (Series) >
        • Theosophy on Ancient Astronauts
        • Pyramidiots!
        • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • Fiction Anthologies >
        • Unseen Horror >
          • Contents
          • Excerpt
        • Moon Men! >
          • Contents
      • The Orphic Argonautica >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • The Faust Book >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • Classic Reprints
      • eBook Minis
    • Free eBooks >
      • Origin of the Space Gods
      • Ancient Atom Bombs
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Ancient America
      • Horror & Science
  • Articles
    • Skeptical Xenoarchaeologist Newsletter >
      • Volumes 1-10 Archive >
        • Volume 1 Archive
        • Volume 2 Archive
        • Volume 3 Archive
        • Volume 4 Archive
        • Volume 5 Archive
        • Volume 6 Archive
        • Volume 7 Archive
        • Volume 8 Archive
        • Volume 9 Archive
        • Volume 10 Archive
      • Volumes 11-20 Archive >
        • Volume 11 Archive
        • Volume 12 Archive
        • Volume 13 Archive
        • Volume 14 Archive
        • Volume 15 Archive
        • Volume 16 Archive
        • Volume 17 Archive
        • Volume 18 Archive
        • Volume 19 Archive
        • Volume 20 Archive
      • Volumes 21-30 Archive >
        • Volume 21 Archive
        • Volume 22 Archive
    • Television Reviews >
      • Ancient Aliens Reviews
      • In Search of Aliens Reviews
      • America Unearthed
      • Pirate Treasure of the Knights Templar
      • Search for the Lost Giants
      • Forbidden History Reviews
      • Expedition Unknown Reviews
      • Legends of the Lost
      • Unexplained + Unexplored
      • Rob Riggle: Global Investigator
    • Book Reviews
    • Galleries >
      • Bad Archaeology
      • Ancient Civilizations >
        • Ancient Egypt
        • Ancient Greece
        • Ancient Near East
        • Ancient Americas
      • Supernatural History
      • Book Image Galleries
    • Videos
    • Collection: Ancient Alien Fraud >
      • Chariots of the Gods at 50
      • Secret History of Ancient Astronauts
      • Of Atlantis and Aliens
      • Aliens and Ancient Texts
      • Profiles in Ancient Astronautics >
        • Erich von Däniken
        • Robert Temple
        • Giorgio Tsoukalos
        • David Childress
      • Blunders in the Sky
      • The Case of the False Quotes
      • Alternative Authors' Quote Fraud
      • David Childress & the Aliens
      • Faking Ancient Art in Uzbekistan
      • Intimations of Persecution
      • Zecharia Sitchin's World
      • Jesus' Alien Ancestors?
      • Extraterrestrial Evolution?
    • Collection: Skeptic Magazine >
      • America Before Review
      • Native American Discovery of Europe
      • Interview: Scott Sigler
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Oh the Horror
      • Discovery of America
      • Supernatural Television
      • Review of Civilization One
      • Who Lost the Middle Ages
      • Charioteer of the Gods
    • Collection: Ancient History >
      • Prehistoric Nuclear War
      • The China Syndrome
      • Atlantis, Mu, and the Maya
      • Easter Island Exposed
      • Who Built the Sphinx?
      • Who Built the Great Pyramid?
      • Archaeological Cover Up?
    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
    • Free Classic Pseudohistory eBooks
  • About Jason
    • Biography
    • Jason in the Media
    • Contact Jason
    • About JasonColavito.com
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Search

"Full Frontal" Blames Greco-Roman Statues for White Supremacy

4/5/2019

28 Comments

 
​On Wednesday, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee sent the Lucas Brothers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to examine why the Alt-Right is obsessed with Greco-Roman statues. The brothers and their team of experts concluded that the white marble of the statues has falsely created a culture of white supremacy around the sculptures which the Alt-Right is exploiting for political gain. This is stupid, and as much as I like Samantha Bee and her show, this segment was flawed, predicated on the facile conflation of the color white with the social construction of Whiteness. 
​In the clip, you can see the Lucas Brothers express shock at learning that Classical statues were originally painted in bright, lifelike colors. This fact has been widely known since the 1800s, and every two to five years since then it has “shocked” society to rediscover it. Museums today routinely include depictions of how the statues would originally have appeared, and many textbooks of Classical civilization going back a century show ancient buildings and statues in color. Even movies have started showing Greco-Roman buildings in their more accurate color schemes. After three hundred years, I think its time to stop being shocked by statues’ polychrome paint jobs.
 
That we are shocked is due to eighteenth-century classicist Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who argued that statues best represented idealized human forms when they were stripped of their paint. “The whiter the body is, the more beautiful it is as well,” he wrote, for he believed color distracted from the perfection of form. His equation of whiteness with beauty shaped attitudes toward Greco-Roman Antiquity, but also reinforced the idea that white coloration was equivalent to the White race. This is why, for example, the Nazis were able to falsely claim that Greco-Roman statues represented “Aryans” even as they denigrated Greeks and Italians as lesser people. However, until the end of the nineteenth century, the “white” color of the statues was seen as cold rationality, form over ornament, an artistic rather than a racial statement.
 
But the problem is that the Lucas Brothers conclude that adding color—any color—to Greco-Roman statues turns them into representations of racial diversity. “Whiteness is not a skin color. Whiteness is a system of oppression,” one scholar tells them in the video, even as everyone involved conflates Caucasian ancestry with the literal color white. They and their expert commentators are, of course, correct that the Greeks and Romans did not share the modern concept of race and that their cultures included people from Africa and the Middle East, as well as Europe. But the surviving Greco-Roman statues largely depict the people who held power in Greece and Rome, and the ideal forms they idolized. Those were Mediterranean people, and they would have been painted accordingly. The segment envisions statues painted dark shades of brown, but this did not necessarily indicate biological skin color, however much it would conform to modern preferences. The Greeks preferred sun-bronzed olive skin on men and pale lily-white skin on women. This was fashion. Within living memory, Americans did, too.
 
The segment seems self-evidently inspired by Sarah Bond’s controversial essay in 2017 alleging that white marble is racist, seeing as she appears in the video. In a pair of 2017 articles, Bond alleged that museums display Classical statues without their original coats of paint because it helps to reinforce white supremacy through their emphasis on the color white. She did not explain why bronze statues failed to support diversity since they are various shades of brown and green. Nor does the argument account for Antique sculptures in black marble, purple porphyry, and stones of other colors. Or, more likely, the segment took its direct inspiration from an October article in The New Yorker that cited Bond and rehashed the same argument yet again and once more delivered the news that ancient sculptures were painted as though it were breaking news.
 
That article, to my dismay, reported that a grad student in 2000 had his mind blown upon discovering traces of color on a statue, having only experienced Greek statuary in black and white textbook photographs, and how one in the 1980s had the same horrified revelation. How, I wondered, could someone make it through graduate school studying this subject and have no idea about facts clearly established for the better part of three centuries? The color plates from my old Victorian books about Greek and Roman history depict statues in polychrome colors. The New Yorker is of course correct that it is willful ignorance to perpetuate the lie of blank statuary, but when the magazine compares the white statues to the austere white public spaces of midcentury modernism, it lost me entirely in the argument that any use of unadorned white space is a statement of race. White people aren’t actually white-colored, and the Taj Mahal testifies to the fact that they own no monopoly on the use of the color in architecture.
 
Anyway, Bond told the New Yorker that she was inspired by posters that the white nationalist group Identity Evropa uses featuring Greco-Roman sculptures to combat their appropriation as symbols of whiteness. (Some of the posters actually depict Renaissance sculptures, including Michelangelo’s David.) I think that while Bond’s intentions are good, and Identity Evropa’s are bad, it isn’t entirely wrong to cite Greek and Roman sculptures as exemplars of Europe’s cultural heritage. Greece and Rome were certainly diverse, but not in the way modern multicultural democracies are diverse, and Greek and Roman cultural achievements form one of the major threads animating European culture, no matter how embarrassed some on the far left are that there is such a place as Europe. There are certainly examples of sub-Saharan Africans depicted in Greco-Roman sculpture, but they aren’t numbered among the gods, emperors, and heroes. To pretend otherwise is to impose modern multicultural preferences on the ancient record and to try to mask the ancients’ ethnocentric preferences for their own “superior” cultures based on their homelands.
 
Besides, the New Yorker undercuts its own argument by noting that Classical sculptors often used basalt to sculpt African people and painted them in dark brown paint. This would actually be evidence that white marble sculptures were in fact intended to serve as the undercoat for lighter paint jobs. In fact, the Metropolitan Museum of Art itself, the very institution where Full Frontal shot its piece and spoke with its experts, declares that Black Africans were considered exotic and a marked contrast to Greek self-perception until fairly late in Antiquity, the Hellenistic Period and after, when Black Africans are seen more widely in Greek society.
 
This points to another problem: The arguments also tend to lump together all of Antiquity from Archaic Greece to Late Antique Italy. They aren’t the same. The world of imperial Rome, particularly in the last centuries of the Western Empire, was much more diverse than the much smaller and more homogenous world of Archaic or Classical Greece. The magazine cites the Berber origins of second-century emperor Septimius Severus as an example of diversity in the Roman elites, but he was a product of the vast expansion of Roman culture in the imperial age that would have been utterly foreign to the Republicans of three centuries earlier. (Literally: Roman citizenship was only expanded outside Rome under the Lex Julia of 90 BCE and did not include every free man in the empire until the son of Severus, Caracalla, expanded citizenship in 212 CE.)
 
Bond is right that the Greeks and Romans had no concept of Whiteness as a race (or any other color as a race for that matter), but both she and the New Yorker go to illogical extremes to try to deny that the Greeks should even be counted as “white” in modern terms—a claim that would have made the Nazis smile. The magazine, citing Bond and classicist Tim Whitmarsh argue that the Greeks favored pale white skin for women but preferred their men bronzed to show that they worked outdoors and engaged in healthy pursuits. As you might instantly recognize, they are talking about sun tans, not race. Conflating a sun tan with modern racial constructs in order to combat white nationalism does a disservice to the Greeks and to the intelligence of modern audiences. Whitmarsh notes that the Greeks preferred darker skin tones in men, but this referred to variation within the general olive-colored Mediterranean type. It was a social fashion, not a statement for or against racism, any more than the preference for pale women is an endorsement of whiteness. (It is interesting that only men’s bodies are considered to embody the true racial heritage or lack thereof in the views of both art historians and Alt-Right racists.)
 
Understanding that Greek and Roman sculptures depicted Greeks and Romans in their diversity is an important corrective to the idea that they were somehow Nazi-style Aryans, but I guess I just don’t understand the argument that white marble is racist. After all, when the statues were painted, they were still the same Greeks and Romans, and the majority of those people were ethnically Greek and Italian. Paint doesn’t change that. The real problem seems to lie in the more subtle argument that the art historians laid out, namely that imagining Greeks and Romans as the only ancient people to have celebrate form over ornament and to have left their statues unadorned out of cold rationality has historically been used to separate the West from the rest of the world. But this isn’t a claim about race.
 
The claim about race is being used to combat a different issue: the idea that Western civilization is something special or to be celebrated. And all of these pieces under discussion here have mixed together the white race and Western civilization and essentially declared both to be shameful. Identity Evropa tries to use Greece and Rome, along with racist claims, to create a unified European identity where one never historically existed, but these rebuttal pieces go too far the other way and go beyond correcting the factual record to use Greco-Roman art for an opposing political message based on modern multicultural ideology and cultural relativism.
 
All of that is a lot to fit into a couple of minutes on a comedy show, but I would have liked to see Full Frontal be a little more circumspect about the implications of painted statues. 
28 Comments
Joe Scales
4/5/2019 10:16:50 am

I miss the days when late night television comics were funny. Not to say that you can't use politics for source material. Just that once a comic starts taking themselves seriously, it becomes political advocacy; with the young and unwise as their marks. Hasn't been anyone really groundbreaking coming along since Dave Chapelle that hasn't deep down been exposed as a pure political hack.

Reply
Read this
4/5/2019 08:31:45 pm

The Irish and the Jews cannot tell jokes about themselves anymore.

No longer allowed to tell jokes about "the irish man, the welsh man, the scots man and English man" anymore

The world has become useless swill and sewage full of political correctness - and distorted reasoning about "white supremacy"

Good job that the "white supremacists" in Western countries are economically superior or blacks and other in countries like Venezuala would be perishing - eating worms and leaves from trees

Reply
Band Aid
4/5/2019 08:35:06 pm

What was Band Aid all about

Shouldn't all those pop singers have been advised AT THE TIME that they were all doing wrong by representing "White Supremacy"

LOL

Don't forget this
4/5/2019 08:37:24 pm

Missionary work to other countries in the form of forced evangelism continues to this day

Another example of White Supremacy - the Whites have got the superior religion and all other religions are wrong

Christianity
4/5/2019 08:40:01 pm

Yeah, Christianity
The biggest debunked religion in the world and of all time

The Chosen People
4/5/2019 08:42:55 pm

The Chosen People - that doesn't represent Racial Supremacy

LOL

Bible Believer
4/5/2019 08:54:45 pm

Hey, I believe in the Bible
The Bible is the ONLY RELIGION
All other religions are false

Christianity is the only religion
Everybody who is Christian is part of The Chosen Race
This is not Supremacy
This is ETERNAL TRUTH AND GLORY AND ALL OTHERS WILL BE DAMNED IN HELL !!!

Alleluya !!!!!

An Anonymous Nerd
4/6/2019 05:44:25 pm

I've noticed that Conservatives rarely complain about Conservative politics being promoted by comics, but somehow Liberal comics doing it becomes "too political" or just being a "hack" or what have you.

I guess to them Conservative politics isn't really politics. It's just a given and anyone who points out the transparent flaws is a "simpleton" or an "imbecile" or what have you. That's what having all that cash behind it does to a political movement I guess.

Oh well. They've pretty much already won (again: funding), even though to hear them tell it it's the opposite, so this is our world now.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Reply
Kent
4/6/2019 06:06:03 pm

"I've noticed that Conservatives rarely complain about Conservative politics being promoted by comics"

Are you really just now figuring out that people generally don't criticize their own side? There are plenty of people who say "Dennis Miller? He used to be funny then he went all political." I'm at a disadvantage because I'm not current on openly conservative comics. Perhaps you could help me with that? Who would you like to see criticized?

"All that cash"? The Soros cash? The Clinton Foundation Cash? The Starbucks Guy cash? There's plenty of cash on both sides.

Joe Scales
4/6/2019 08:22:36 pm

Dennis Miller is an excellent example of a comic taking themselves too seriously, immersing themselves in politics and losing their edge. Old news though.

An Anonymous Nerd
4/20/2019 08:23:02 pm

Hi everyone. Wow I'm really late replying. Sorry.

At any rate there's really only one attempt at a substantive point to address: the argument that, somehow, money on the Left and money on the Right is around equal or at least of a similar magnitude.

[["All that cash"? The Soros cash? The Clinton Foundation Cash? The Starbucks Guy cash? There's plenty of cash on both sides.]]

No. False equivalency at its finest.

Even if we just take direct donations to political causes the Conservatives have us Liberals beat badly.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/richest-billionaires-are-top-political-spenders/

Drop the dataset into a spreadsheet program and sum the columns and you'll see that. I think it was like by $20 or $25 million. Not to mention the fact that I'd be surprised if some of the donations on the Liberal side weren't pretty focused on specific issues, not general donations to bolster a political ideology. Almost as surpirsed, indeed, if most of the Conservative donations weren't of a more general, ideological (rather than issue by issue) nature. No one for example could mistake Michael Bloomberg for a Liberal. He has some points of agreement with us, to be sure. But that's not the same thing. (Note that Open Secrets highlights his support of Republicans as well as Democrats, and his propping up of the Republicans in New York State is political legend at this point. Here's just one thing highlighting that point: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/nyregion/06bloomberg.html)

And besides, direct donations like this aren't where it's at these days. Influencing the broader conversation is far more effective.

Where is the Liberal equivalent of the Koch Brothers' Tea Party? (The Occupy movement was left to die, whereas the Tea Party was nurtured and developed.) Where is the Liberal equivalent of Murdoch's Fox News? (MSNBC doesn't even come close, in terms of ideological intensity or support.) Where is the Liberal equivalent of the large pool of Conservative lawyers, all feeling entitled to a seat on the US Supreme Court, and all thinking themselves the intellectual heir to Scalia?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-conservative-pipeline-to-the-supreme-court

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/how-the-federalist-society-became-the-de-facto-selector-of-republican-supreme-court-justices.html

A quote from the Slate piece:

[If Hillary Clinton had been elected president, she would have received strong pressure from some quarters to nominate a strong liberal to the court. Democrats, however, have traditionally downplayed ideology in favor of other goals as Obama did with the Garland pick. Certainly there would have been no single progressive group that came even close to dominating the nomination process, nor would association with any such group be regarded as a litmus test. ]

Where is the Liberal equivalent of Rush Limbaugh's "Excellence in Broadcasting" network, pushing Liberal programming and ramming it down audience's throats until, decades later, it becomes standard? Where are the Liberal conspiracy theories made mainstream?

All this stuff requires a lot of money. The Conservatives have it and have been spending it.

Mentioning the Clinton Foundation was a waste of space, rather like the Foundation itself -- it doesn't do all that much.

At any rate....There it is. I know I won't convert you of your friends. I just can't let bunk lying around un-debunked if I can help it.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Joe Scales
4/21/2019 09:56:18 am

Please take your bullshit politics elsewhere, you pretentious, fawning nincompoop. You jumped in on this one as usual, without intellectual enlightenment of any sort. Just pure partisan nonsense. Do you really think anyone here wants to hear from you? Do you truly believe you add anything to any discussion here other than political regurgitation from those that control you with absolutely no balanced inquiry on your part to intercede. A puppet. A pawn. A pretentious, whingeing wanker. Can't you see it is obvious to anyone who's ever had the displeasure of your response that you use Google for a brain and are wholly incapable of original thought?

No. You can't. You never will. Because deep down. Really, truly deep down... you're an imbecile. Embrace this truth, you pretentious anonymity. Then maybe type less. Please.

William Fitzgerald
4/5/2019 10:34:34 am

"I think that while Bond’s intentions are good, and Identity Evropa’s are bad"

I agree white nationalists and supremacists are bad. But, I disagree that Bond's intentions are necessarily good. She clearly takes things too far and for a purpose. While I agree she is no where near the evil ideology of supremacists, her ideology nonetheless seems to be looking down a parallel path. (Don't mistake me, I am not trying to form a moral equivalence; but I also am not dismissing or ignoring where her ideology *could* lead. You can disavow an evil ideology without taking the opposite of it).

"[T]he idea that Western civilization is something special or to be celebrated"

Perhaps you're being sloppy and need to tidy up your thoughts, try Marie Kondo. Or maybe you subscribe to some form of relativism. Though Interesting that the whole idea of individual freedom and value as well as the concept of equality in justice and opportunity are foundational and largely originated from this not so special and clearly discredited "Western civilization," seems to be lost on some. It would be amusing, if not so dangerous, that the very basis relied upon to denigrate "Western civilization" are formed from the very concepts that come from this same "civilization"

While I don't completely dismiss the idea of relativism out of hand. I do not subscribe to the idea that everything is on an equal footing: there are objective reasons to classify some things as being better than other things; subjectively we are allowed our preferences, but this doesn't diminish objective truth (what a bunch of "Western" concepts, BTW). I don't believe "Western civilization" is faultless and inherently superior in all things under the sun. But, objectively it brought us the world we live in now, for better of worse, and I tend to think on the whole for the better.

But, maybe I misunderstand you. Maybe you don't exactly believe in relativism either, but instead believe "Western civilization" is objectively inferior...

Reply
An Anonymous Nerd
4/6/2019 10:19:24 am

[I am not trying to form a moral equivalence]

Actually based on the rest of the post that's exactly what you're doing. Sadly that stuff works these days.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Reply
Poodleshooter
4/5/2019 10:49:51 am

Nit-pick: "after three hundred years" and "for the better part of three centuries"?

It's good to know that Man Ray, Weegee, and Ansel Adams were white supremacists. On the other hand Hitler and Churchill, both well-known racists, used colored paint.

Reply
orang
4/5/2019 11:42:08 am

I believe that in the world of painting art, black and white aren't even considered to be colors.

Reply
Kent
4/5/2019 11:42:16 am

"The claim about race is being used to combat a different issue: the idea that Western civilization is something special or to be celebrated."

Western civilization IS something special and to be celebrated. As is Islamic civilization from Morocco to China, and the various Asian civilizations. I'm leaving several obvious mentions out just to stir the pot.

Reply
Naughtius
4/5/2019 12:36:33 pm

Identiy politics gone up it’s own ass, they will be ther very first people to be sonshocked to how they lose elections.

Reply
Titus Pullo
4/5/2019 08:21:38 pm

Get woke..go broke.

Seriously Jason you are starting to become a little in touch with the authoritarian left. "Alt Right'..oh my god there are thousands of them shooting hundreds of "non whites"...funny didn't see that on the news today. How many members of the "alt right" exist? A few hundred? Most likely half of their groups are made up of FBI informants.

Some poor old guy walks into a Starbucks with a MAGA hat on in Palo Alto yesterday and this lunatic women starts screaming at him and calling him all sorts of horrible names and tells him to "get out of her city." Called him a nazi, of course given he was jewish well that was interesting.

The real danger are these identity politic nut jobs..they are a real threat to our liberty and are just marxists the same type of folks who had NO problem killing millions of Ukrainians because they believed in being allowed to keep what they produced.



Get Woke..Go Broke.

Reply
Kent
4/5/2019 11:56:22 pm

It's ironic that Stalin and Mao each individually out-killed Hitler. That doesn't include deaths due to war. Hitler by comparison was a feckless *unt.

Reply
WHITE SUPREMACY JARGON AGAIN
4/5/2019 08:26:09 pm

STOP SENDING CHARITY TO OTHER COUNTRIES
LET THEM STAND ON THEIR OWN TWO FEET
THE SCOTS WANT INDEPENDENCE - BUT THEY ARE NOT LOBBYING TO STOP ACCEPTING BRITISH FINANCIAL SUPPORT

TOO MUCH OF THIS GARBAGE ABOUT SUPREMACY
THE WESTERN WHITES ARE ECONOMICALLY SUPERIOR TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

TOO MUCH GARBAGE ON BLOGS LIKE THIS
IF PEOPLE ON THIS BLOG BELLY ACHE ABOUT BEING PART OF WHITE SUPREMACY THEY SHOULD EMIGRATE TO THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES AND BECOME "EQUAL"

Reply
Kent
4/5/2019 11:47:00 pm

I would but San Francisco is too expensive.

Reply
An Anonymous Nerd
4/6/2019 05:38:24 pm

Calm down.

[THE WESTERN WHITES ARE ECONOMICALLY SUPERIOR TO THE REST OF THE WORLD]

You mean like the rich people of China and South Korea? Or maybe that guy who used to be President of Egypt? He was pretty rich before he was usurped.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Reply
Timothy Newman
4/10/2019 03:44:24 am

THE WESTERN WHITES ARE ECONOMICALLY SUPERIOR TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

Per Capita GDP figures disagree with you. China, Japan and (imminently) India being in the top-5 countries for GDP disagrees with you.

Reply
William Fitzgerald
4/10/2019 09:26:25 am

2018 per IMF GDP ranking as follows:
1. U.S.
[EU]
2. China
3. Japan
4. Germany
5. U.K.
6. France
7. India
8. Italy
9. Brazil
10. Canada

So I am assuming this is the list you are talking about and not per capita, which is very different (again IMF 2018 #s):
1. Luxembourg
2. Switzerland
3. Norway
4. Ireland
5. Iceland
6. Qatar
7. Singapore
8. U.S.
9. Denmark
10. Australia

Notice some trends:
1. Larger populated countries tend to have a higher GDP. Of the top 11 most populated counties 5 are in the top ten for GDP (fudging a little to include #11 in population: Japan-forgive me).
2. Europe is a corollary: the top four most populated EU countries are in the top 10 for overall GDP; even if these countries are not impressive in population relative to the world. Also the EU ranks #3, ahead of the U.S. in population and #2 in GDP, if this condominium were counted.
3. Almost all (eight out of ten) of the counties ranking high in per capita GDP are smaller than 10 million people and most are around 5 million or less. This of course makes sense as rich countries with low populations are going to rank high on a per capita GDP basis.
4. Two exceptions U.S. and Australia; Australia still has a relatively small population, about 25 million, but is a rich country. The U.S. is the true anomaly. The next country with over 100 million people on a per capita basis is Japan at #24...then Russia at #60, and then Mexico just edging out China at #66 etc.

I am not making a straight-line judgement on economic vitality and culture. Although, it is interesting that Europe and other Western countries do well in either overall GDP or on a per capita basis; and then look at the U.S. which is doing well in both. Still, expand this out a little more and basically its Western and Asian countries that dominate. I believe there are a few reasons for this, and culture is part of it; but mostly it's geography.

I am going to get a little messy here for the sake of brevity and because there are always going to be exceptions that I won't fully explore. So, historically there have been three economic engines of the world: Europe (including the greater Mediterranean), India and China. This is a result of geography. In short: places with arable land, located mostly outside the tropics, with access to good waterways (rivers, enclosed seas, etc); this allowed large populations who could generate wealth. These were the pivots of the world. Then in 1492 the new world enters history. Two new places emerged with similar characteristics: Southern South America (primary Argentina) and most notably, what is now the U.S.

The U.S. has more arable land and naturally navigable waterways than anywhere else in the world. In fact, the U.S. has more good arable land than the next two regions combined and more navigable waterways than the rest of the world combined. (Navigable waterways are important because it its the cheapest means for transportation i.e. wealth generation). The U.S. is also easily defendable, with relatively peaceful neighbors, and an abundance of other natural resources. Ever wonder why the U.S. is a super-power (and right now the only), its primarily because of its geography.

I don't advocate geo-determinism. Look at Japan, which has some advantages, but its geographic position doesn't completely account for its high economic output. This is why culture can be important. Likewise, Argentina should do much better than it currently is and should dominate South America, but it hasn't been in a position to do so since about the 1920s. I am not going to psychoanalyze Argentina but something is wrong given its great potential. So, culture helps further explain, but geography is usually the starting point; and without putting too fine a point on my argument: culture is often defined by the geography in which it develops.

A C
4/6/2019 06:57:47 am

"However, until the end of the nineteenth century, the “white” color of the statues was seen as cold rationality, form over ornament, an artistic rather than a racial statement."

This claim completely ignores the cultural context of the times. When there are racial theorists claiming that rationality is a attribute more associated with certain races then any symbols of 'cold rationality' are also symbols that can be leveraged by those racial theories.

"The real problem seems to lie in the more subtle argument that the art historians laid out, namely that imagining Greeks and Romans as the only ancient people to have celebrate form over ornament and to have left their statues unadorned out of cold rationality has historically been used to separate the West from the rest of the world. But this isn’t a claim about race."

It may not have been a claim about race to everyone who heard or made it because the 19th century produced a variety of racial theories, but its full of terms that were interpreted racially.

To white supremacists "the west vs the rest" and "whites vs other races" are identical concepts and they'll fudge the boundaries of both concepts to make them align.

Reply
Jim
4/6/2019 11:53:55 am

Off topic, but it looks like we may have a front runner for the Dunce of the year award :

"Wolter, a forensic geologist, and his crew plan to detonate a bomb in the Minneapolis area under FBI supervision."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-ent-america-unearthed-haymarket-affair-20190405-story.html

Reply
An Anonymous Nerd
4/6/2019 12:41:47 pm

Mr. Colavito's statement: [The claim about race is being used to combat a different issue: the idea that Western civilization is something special or to be celebrated.]

seemingly has been misread entirely. As a public service I quote the entire paragraph.

[The claim about race is being used to combat a different issue: the idea that Western civilization is something special or to be celebrated. And all of these pieces under discussion here have mixed together the white race and Western civilization and essentially declared both to be shameful. Identity Evropa tries to use Greece and Rome, along with racist claims, to create a unified European identity where one never historically existed, but these rebuttal pieces go too far the other way and go beyond correcting the factual record to use Greco-Roman art for an opposing political message based on modern multicultural ideology and cultural relativism.]

In other words: Mr. Colavito actually agrees with many of you who are criticizing him on what appears to be an incorrect of what he's saying. Probably even more than I agree with him in this instance and I still agree with him.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Reply

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Blog
    Picture

    Author

    I am an author and researcher focusing on pop culture, science, and history. Bylines: New Republic, Esquire, Slate, etc. There's more about me in the About Jason tab.

    Become a Patron!
    Tweets by JasonColavito
    Picture

    Newsletters

    Enter your email below to subscribe to my newsletter for updates on my latest projects, blog posts, and activities, and subscribe to Culture & Curiosities, my Substack newsletter.

    powered by TinyLetter

    Blog Roll

    Ancient Aliens Debunked
    Picture
    A Hot Cup of Joe
    ArchyFantasies
    Bad UFOs
    Mammoth Tales
    Matthew R. X. Dentith
    PaleoBabble
    Picture

    Categories

    All
    Alternative Archaeology
    Alternative Archaeology
    Alternative History
    Alternative History
    America Unearthed
    Ancient Aliens
    Ancient Astronauts
    Ancient History
    Ancient Texts
    Ancient Texts
    Archaeology
    Atlantis
    Conspiracies
    Giants
    Habsburgs
    Horror
    King Arthur
    Knights Templar
    Lovecraft
    Mythology
    Occult
    Popular Culture
    Popular Culture
    Projects
    Pyramids
    Racism
    Science
    Skepticism
    Ufos
    Weird Old Art
    Weird Things
    White Nationalism

    Terms & Conditions

    Please read all applicable terms and conditions before posting a comment on this blog. Posting a comment constitutes your agreement to abide by the terms and conditions linked herein.

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010

    RSS Feed

Picture
Home  |  Blog  |  Books  | Contact  |  About Jason | Terms & Conditions
© 2010-2023 Jason Colavito. All rights reserved.

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Books
    • Legends of the Pyramids
    • The Mound Builder Myth
    • Jason and the Argonauts
    • Cult of Alien Gods >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Foundations of Atlantis
    • Knowing Fear >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Hideous Bit of Morbidity >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Cthulhu in World Mythology >
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
      • Necronomicon Fragments
      • Oral Histories
    • Fiction >
      • Short Stories
      • Free Fiction
    • JasonColavito.com Books >
      • Faking History
      • Unearthing the Truth
      • Critical Companion to Ancient Aliens
      • Studies in Ancient Astronautics (Series) >
        • Theosophy on Ancient Astronauts
        • Pyramidiots!
        • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • Fiction Anthologies >
        • Unseen Horror >
          • Contents
          • Excerpt
        • Moon Men! >
          • Contents
      • The Orphic Argonautica >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • The Faust Book >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • Classic Reprints
      • eBook Minis
    • Free eBooks >
      • Origin of the Space Gods
      • Ancient Atom Bombs
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Ancient America
      • Horror & Science
  • Articles
    • Skeptical Xenoarchaeologist Newsletter >
      • Volumes 1-10 Archive >
        • Volume 1 Archive
        • Volume 2 Archive
        • Volume 3 Archive
        • Volume 4 Archive
        • Volume 5 Archive
        • Volume 6 Archive
        • Volume 7 Archive
        • Volume 8 Archive
        • Volume 9 Archive
        • Volume 10 Archive
      • Volumes 11-20 Archive >
        • Volume 11 Archive
        • Volume 12 Archive
        • Volume 13 Archive
        • Volume 14 Archive
        • Volume 15 Archive
        • Volume 16 Archive
        • Volume 17 Archive
        • Volume 18 Archive
        • Volume 19 Archive
        • Volume 20 Archive
      • Volumes 21-30 Archive >
        • Volume 21 Archive
        • Volume 22 Archive
    • Television Reviews >
      • Ancient Aliens Reviews
      • In Search of Aliens Reviews
      • America Unearthed
      • Pirate Treasure of the Knights Templar
      • Search for the Lost Giants
      • Forbidden History Reviews
      • Expedition Unknown Reviews
      • Legends of the Lost
      • Unexplained + Unexplored
      • Rob Riggle: Global Investigator
    • Book Reviews
    • Galleries >
      • Bad Archaeology
      • Ancient Civilizations >
        • Ancient Egypt
        • Ancient Greece
        • Ancient Near East
        • Ancient Americas
      • Supernatural History
      • Book Image Galleries
    • Videos
    • Collection: Ancient Alien Fraud >
      • Chariots of the Gods at 50
      • Secret History of Ancient Astronauts
      • Of Atlantis and Aliens
      • Aliens and Ancient Texts
      • Profiles in Ancient Astronautics >
        • Erich von Däniken
        • Robert Temple
        • Giorgio Tsoukalos
        • David Childress
      • Blunders in the Sky
      • The Case of the False Quotes
      • Alternative Authors' Quote Fraud
      • David Childress & the Aliens
      • Faking Ancient Art in Uzbekistan
      • Intimations of Persecution
      • Zecharia Sitchin's World
      • Jesus' Alien Ancestors?
      • Extraterrestrial Evolution?
    • Collection: Skeptic Magazine >
      • America Before Review
      • Native American Discovery of Europe
      • Interview: Scott Sigler
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Oh the Horror
      • Discovery of America
      • Supernatural Television
      • Review of Civilization One
      • Who Lost the Middle Ages
      • Charioteer of the Gods
    • Collection: Ancient History >
      • Prehistoric Nuclear War
      • The China Syndrome
      • Atlantis, Mu, and the Maya
      • Easter Island Exposed
      • Who Built the Sphinx?
      • Who Built the Great Pyramid?
      • Archaeological Cover Up?
    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
    • Free Classic Pseudohistory eBooks
  • About Jason
    • Biography
    • Jason in the Media
    • Contact Jason
    • About JasonColavito.com
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Search