![]() Some of Hancock's ideas are a little wacky, but the core idea that civilization is older than we think probably has legs. Years ago there was a thread on the old less-moderated /r/science about "Are there any of today's 'kooks' that you think might eventually be vindicated?" Hancock was one of the most popular answers, along with the two 'water weathering on the Sphinx' folks (forget their names). The ancient Greeks didn't care as much about the distinctions we cling to in the modern world. Atlantis could have been a real city in accordance with the theory described by OP, but Plato might have adopted that truth for the purpose of crafting a political allegory that would be, in his eyes, even MORE true than some mundane fact like "Atlantis actually exists." So don't be too quick to dismiss it as false just because Plato meant it as a political allegory. With that in mind, they would not have placed a high priority on clearly stating what was totally real and what was totally unreal. Whatever did or did not happen in the mundane world of day-to-day life wasn't as important as the lens through which that world was interpreted. On the other hand, the story of Icarus would be regarded as non-fiction, not because it actually happened in the sense that we understand historical events, but because it taught a moral truth. So a simple story like "a citizen robbed a merchant and was rewarded by the town for his good deed" may or may not be factual (by our standards), but to them would be a fiction. A story was non-fiction (true to life) if it taught lessons and ideas that were true. For them, a story was fiction (not true to life) if it taught lessons and ideas that were not true. In the ancient world, there was little distinction between the concepts of fiction and non-fiction with regard to story-telling, given that they viewed their own existence as part of a larger (what we might call fantasy) narrative about the universe itself. The most recent episode with both Randall and Graham was especially intriguing, since they both brought their unique studies together into a more unified theory. I apologize if my interpretation of their discussions is inaccurate in any way, I am now just digging into this theory and it's truly fascinating. This becomes especially interesting when you take into account the timeline of Plato's account which exactly lines up with the beginning of the Younger Dryas meltdown. This would be a large habitable island off the coast of Europe. When you look at the mid-atlantic ridge, the lower sea levels would expose an area now called the Azores Plateau. The short of it would be, before the Younger Dryas period when the massive ice sheets over North America melted, the ocean levels were approximately 300 ft lower than they are today. Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock have been on the Joe Rogan Experience a few times over the years, together and separately, and have explained their well documented theory about Atlantis.
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