{"id":1767067,"date":"2022-12-08T06:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767067"},"modified":"2022-12-08T06:47:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:47:39","slug":"the-lying-media-told-me-not-to-watch-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse-so-i-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lying-media-told-me-not-to-watch-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse-so-i-did\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lying Media Told Me Not To Watch Netflix\u2019s \u2018Ancient Apocalypse,\u2019 So I Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-lying-media-told-me-not-to-watch-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse-so-i-did%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767067&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Archeologists and their friends in the media are losing their minds over author and journalist Graham Hancock\u2019s alternative ancient history Netflix series \u201cAncient Apocalypse.\u201d According to The Guardian, \u201cAncient Apocalypse is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2022\/nov\/23\/ancient-apocalypse-is-the-most-dangerous-show-on-netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the most dangerous<\/a>\u00a0show on Netflix.\u201d It\u2019s \u201can all out attack on archaeologists,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/with-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse-graham-hancock-has-declared-war-on-archaeologists-194881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reads<\/a>\u00a0one hit piece on the series. It \u201cpromotes a whole lot of bunk,\u201d Slate <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2022\/11\/ancient-apocalypse-graham-hancock-netflix-theory-explained.html\">accuses<\/a>. \u201c[Graham\u2019s] whole theory is steeped in racism and white supremacy,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2022\/11\/27\/archaeologists-reveal-the-white-supremacist-nonsense-behind-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alleges<\/a>\u00a0another.<\/p>\n<p>The outrage articles don\u2019t seem to have stopped anyone from watching \u201cAncient Apocalypse,\u201d though. The series\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/169282\/right-wing-graham-hancock-netflix-atlantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly garnered<\/a>\u00a024.62 million hours of viewing in its first week of release, earning it a spot on Netflix\u2019s \u201ctop 10\u201d in 31 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Accusations that Hancock\u2019s theory is an affront to archaeology or that it\u2019s somehow \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d are poor excuses for the real reason people in the corporate media hate \u201cAncient Apocalypse\u201d: its active defiance of the establishment narrative in archeology. The media fear the show threatens to prompt viewers to begin questioning the authority in other realms, as well. \u201c[W]here does it end? Believing that election fraud is real? Believing 9\/11 was an inside job?\u201d The Guardian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2022\/nov\/23\/ancient-apocalypse-is-the-most-dangerous-show-on-netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">frets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new docuseries rejects establishment archeology\u2019s belief that human civilization was not advanced prior to about 4,000 B.C. Hancock travels to various ancient structures across the globe, pointing out that many of them happen to be architecturally alike \u2014 something modern archaeologists have been unable to explain. He also points to many ancient civilizations sharing similar stories of an ancient being or beings teaching them about architecture, agriculture, astronomy, arts, and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Hancock hypothesizes that a crashing comet destroyed Atlantis or a similar advanced lost civilization some 13,000 years ago, sparking a Great Flood (an event recorded and passed down by many ancient peoples). Hancock attributes the similarities in architecture and origin stories of the known ancient civilizations to the survivors of the lost civilization. He believes the survivors were somehow able to disseminate their knowledge to hunter-gatherers across the globe, who, in turn, built some of the oldest ancient civilizations in recorded history.<\/p>\n<p>Hancock is a compelling narrator, and the idea that an advanced civilization was wiped out by the Great Flood isn\u2019t implausible. However, his hypothesis still leaves viewers with unanswered questions. How did the survivors of the lost advanced civilization travel to all these different societies around the world? How did they communicate with people who undoubtedly spoke different languages? Where is the archaeological evidence of this advanced civilization? Surely a cataclysm just mild enough to leave behind survivors couldn\u2019t have destroyed\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0evidence of this lost advanced civilization?<\/p>\n<p>Just because Hancock\u2019s theory has holes doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t worth considering, and it certainly doesn\u2019t mean he should be silenced. Yet suppression is exactly what Hancock\u2019s critics want. Last week, the Society for American Archaeology published\u00a0an open letter\u00a0pressuring Netflix to \u201creclassify this series as \u2018science fiction\u2019\u201d rather than a documentary. The Guardian piled on, writing, \u201cWhy has this been allowed?\u201d apparently suggesting that Netflix never should have green-lit the show in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Ancient Apocalypse&#8217; scares the media because it sets a threatening example for viewers to begin questioning authority in other realms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":1767070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}