I've been telling everybody that I give them any shade.

But every time I do, my family thinks I'm crazy.

The hollow earth, UFOs, alien, and painting.

Throw it in the water, this red sky is daily.

When I talk about these things, they think I'm crazy.

There's no escaping anymore, they're able to face. I'm going out of my control. They're sacrificing babies. They're in the days that they think I'm crazy. There's no escape any more. They're able to be crazy. I'm going to 90.

Control their sacrifices babies.

This is the end of days.

But anyways, my baby things are crazy.

Just in the way we're talking about the myth of progress in our own era, this myth of decline was equally entrenched in the ancient mind.

Everybody believed that the people from earlier eras had been greater than they were.

And so there was this persistent sense that we really have to hang

on to tradition and we have to honor those who came before us and we have to try to, like we're

flawed, we have to try to get back to some better way of being. And that's exactly what you're getting with the Atlanteans.

That's the myth of decline.

It's laid out.

And at the end of that decline, people who had once been noble and beautiful and good and blessed

turned into a bunch of imperialistic, militaristic jerks who went out to loop all of North Africa and the Mediterranean,

right? And that's what caused, allegedly, the Great War was the Atlantean, it was when Atlantis

attacks, you know, it's like these guys attack. You just heard today's guest, Jack Kelly, who

studied ancient history, philosophy, literature, language, and architecture

at Yale University. He joins me, Mystic Mark, here on the My Family Thinks Some Crazy podcast

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