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Hope you're doing well.

Steve Mollon, you from Free Domain.

Sunday, May the 3rd, 10 a.m. give or take a minute or two.

And, boy, oh, boy, oh boy.

So something has come out about ancient history, sort of pre-history. Anthropologists, for some

reason I don't particularly understand. Anthropologists are some of the most propagandized

people in the world. He who controls the past, controls the future, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

But man, the anthropologists are cray-cray when it comes to talking about history and the world.

And, of course, one of the things about anthropology, as opposed to history, I mean, in my, obviously, amateur assessment,

anthropology is about pre-written history, and history is about written history. When the written

word comes in, you start to get history before that. It's anthropology. I don't know if that's a formal way of

distinguishing it, but that's certainly the way that I work with it in my head. Now, of course,

the problem with history that is pre-literate, pre-written is, I mean, you can make up any old crappola, shiny shite that you want. I mean, you can make up any old crappola shiny shite that you want. I mean, if you want

to know about ancient Greece, which also was the nickname of my frying pan when I was a bachelor,

but if you want to know about ancient Greece, I mean, the first place you'd do, I mean, you'd hopefully

go and learn ancient Greek, and you would go and study the ideas

and arguments of the Greeks, and you would begin to understand how all of that worked.

And that would be helpful and positive and useful, and that's sort of a requirement as a whole.

Now, if it's prehistory, though, I mean, you've got some artifacts, you got yourself

some bones, you've got yourself some burial mounds, you've got yourself some cave paintings,

I mean, you've got pretty sketchy stuff.

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