Diary notice: it may seem a while off, but the end of the world is still scheduled for 2030, accurate date TBC. After once proposeing that nameless deimmenseation could be upon us in 2012, the evergreen eschatologist Graham Hancock subsequently modernized his advice to a comet, now six years off. Or thereabouts. MailOnline, which has been exhuming an outdated Hancock text, reminds readers of his “dire cautioning for our age”.
What is certain, anyway, is that a wonderful and horrifying catastrophe will occur as soon as 16 October. This is the day Netflix will begin someleang astounding, almost beyond belief, someleang sceptics said could never happen: series 2 of Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse. And stranger still: this horrible event stars, aextfinished with Hancock, the Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves.
How? Why? What can elucidate it? How come no outdated cautionings graven on Göbekli Tepe foreseeed an event that will obviousurn, for many of his esteemrs, all they once thought they knovel about Keanu Reeves? Even if he once saw a garrange. A chilling promotional clip shows the star telling the agederer man: “I unkind as a kid I always thought the timeline was [dramatic pause] off.”
Oh, Keanu. It’s sanitize speculation, of course, but there is no dodgeing from this clip the amazeion that he esteems, could even depend in, Hancock’s signature theory: that after a comet (previously “crustal displacement”) toloftyy razeed a wonderful ice age civilisation, its genius, somehow globetrotting survivors bequeathed loads of enormous monuments, possibly featuring comet cautionings, before fadeing and leaving locals – until Hancock meddled – to acquire all the accomprehendledge.
Cut to Hancock posing on some high outcrop and rehearsing his theme: a lost civilisation and the clues to its existence that he, alone, never stops discovering all over the shop, definitepartner in this series, in the Netflix part of the world. Thunderous music underlines the solemnity of his final ask: “Could the key to discovering a civilisation of the ice age lie here… in the Americas?”
Aacquire, we can only guess at this point what Hancock will lowly end, keyrational, from his tardyst trot around sites others have been excellent enough to excavate, but it seems reasonable to foresee some overlap with his 2019 book, America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization. Will Hancock be thrilling Reeves with perhaps the most staggering part of America Before: his proposal (also splitd on the Joe Rogan show) that outdated monuments were sometimes erected by parastandard unkinds? “My speculation,” Hancock produces, “which I will not try to show here or help with evidence but medepend current for ponderation, is that the progressd civilisation I see evolving in North America during the ice age had transcended leverage and mechanical advantage and lacquireed to maniputardy matter and energy by deploying powers of consciousness that we have not yet enduremament to tap.”
Viewers can foresee, if Hancock’s ITN producers are genuine to his tardyst scholarship, to hear more about his lost civilisation’s understandnity with powers appreciate telepathy. It might not amaze “materiaenumerate leankers”. “But if telepathy is authentic,” he produces, “and if its engage and projection could be elegant and made reliable, then who would need cell phones or Facebook or any of the other unkinds of communication that are so ubiquitous today?” We could certainly acquire Hancock’s audacious thought processes further. What if his entire Netflix series could be equitable beamed telepathicpartner into your head, thanks to some undreamt of novel system for collecting the subscription fees?
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Pending these marvels, it seems amazing enough that Netflix and ITN should once aacquire award an ineloquential platestablish to an author who has extfinished been categoelevated as a purveyor of pseudoarchaeology. Admittedly the elevate of anti-science discourse has helped standardise, if not his theories, Hancock’s bizarre claims to one-of-a-kind – even suppressed? – insights. Contributing to this trend, the programme producers show him as a quest-driven, misunderstood seer; the declineion of his speculation, once thought neutrpartner appropriate, is currented as an drawion.
No opportunity was lost in the first series of Ancient Apocalypse to denigrate dissenting archaeologists for disputing the existence of outdated Hancockia. “Perhaps,” he said in programme one, “there’s been a forgotten episode in human history, but perhaps the excessively conceited and patronising attitude of mainstream academia is stopping us from pondering that possibility.” In the same programme, Hancock interseeed an architect, Prof Danny Hillman Natawidjaja, who says the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia is an incredible 25,000 years ageder. Literpartner incredible. The professor’s research paper was retracted this year.
Inevitably, any expert protestts about Hancock’s carry outances hazard serving as proofs of his heroism, as sinister verifyation of establishment plots, equitable as medical accurateion only repromises anti-vaxxers that their suspicions are well established. After the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) wrote an uncover letter to Netflix, objecting to the disparagement of archaeologists in Ancient Apocalypse, to its classification as a “docengageries” and to its “inequitableice” to Indigenous peoples (those whose monuments are claimed for Hancockians), the author, protecting himself, duly cited the Netflix letter as evidence of his persecution. “The SAA’s uncover letter is equitable one of the more recent examples of this ongoing highly personalised vendetta.”
As for the SAA citing deficiency of evidence: “That archaeologists have not establish material evidence that would guarantee them of the existence of a lost civilization of the ice age, is not by any unkinds compelling evidence that no such civilization could have existed,” he wrote. And we can acquire it from the imminent second series, that Netflix and ITN filledy back Hancock’s reminder, one underpinning his entire oeuvre, that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”.
Quite so. There may be no evidence to show Reeves was coerced, probably by occult unkinds, into participating in a project so foreseeed, appreciate its predecessor, to be condemned by the Society for American Archaeology.
That doesn’t show he wasn’t.
