[DonHopkins]

And I watched The Flintstones as a very young kid and loved it. And it deeply influenced how I thought cavemen lived. Well done, Hanna-Barbera!

The problem is that Erich von Däniken's "science fiction" was pseudo-scientific claptrap, which he sold as the truth, that perpetuated harmful cultural stereotypes, was patronizingly racist, also plagiarized French author Robert Charroux's "The Morning of the Magicians", and he never admitted he was wrong despite mountains of indisputable evidence.

At least Hanna-Barbera framed The Flintstones as fiction. Yabba Dabba Doo!

And at least Scooby Doo's whole schtick was that supernaturalism is just creeps wearing rubber masks. Scooby Doobie Doo!

[ndsipa_pomu]

The lesson we should have learnt from Scooby Doo is that most of the world's problems are created by rich old guys trying to protect their money/investment.

[hermitcrab]

I think there is often a racist subtext to claims that 'the Egyptians couldn't have built the pyramids'. Why? Because they were Africans?

[subjectsigma]

Geez. “It must be racism!” is almost as bad as “It must be aliens!”

[throw4847285]

Just peruse the list of great works that Ancient Aliens proponents claim could not have been built by the people who built them. Do they make that claim about the Parthenon? No. Other than Stonehenge, it's all stuff built outside of Western Civilization.

It could be a series of coincidences, or it could be old strains of racist anthropology, briefly suppressed by Boasian Cultural Anthropology, finding a new conspiratorial outlet.

[subjectsigma]

There’s an Ancient Aliens episodes about the Antithykera Mechanism and pyramids in Italy.

https://youtu.be/wY7LXJI8Ago

https://diggingupancientaliens.com/episode-65-europes-only-p...

Careful clicking that YouTube link, my recommend feed is ruined now

[lioeters]

> Robert Charroux's "The Morning of the Magicians"

Charroux didn't write that one, he was likely influenced by it.

> an earlier French work, The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier (1960), which is likely to have been a direct inspiration for both Charroux and Von Däniken