Lying awake my wandering mind associated the #Communist newspaper of the #USSR named #Pravda, which commonly translates as #Truth, with the #neoFascist in the Whitehouse naming his media platform Truth.

It's interesting how the principles and values play out in reality.

"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening" - #Trump (2018)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - #GeorgeOrwell, #1984 (1949)

#Antifascism isn't a hobby and it's not to be left to dedicated #activists. It is the duty of all free people who refuse to accept the arbitrary rule of corrupt cowards. A #neofascist and cryptofascist #corporate élite are counting on passivity. Take the streets, seize the means.

The #Republican Party doesn't know how to be anything but #racist and #Islamophobic any more -- it has been plumbing the depths of #neofascist bigotry since the 1964 election, and it is by now their only remaining brand. #Vance is Nazi trash, just like his Führer.

This disgusting display comes from #PatriotFront stormtroopers, complete with American flags adorned with the 'fasces' symbol. Patriot Front is a #WhiteSupremacist, #neofascist group that split from #neonazi group #VanguardAmerica. This is Trump's base.

#politics #farage #nigelfarage #racist #racism #fascist #neofascist #uk #election #generalelection #reformuk #reformparty #reform #rightwing #immigration
He denied singing the songs but some people swear he did it.
Nigel Farage isn’t the person he appears to be, and people should be very very wary of this man. He’s positively dangerous…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfyiSk8Rjc8

Worst vacation ever!

#Fasicsm #ChristianNationalism #WhiteChristianNationalism
#NeoFascist

https://libertypastors.ticketspice.com/lp-georgia

#Poland Wants #Pardon for #NeoFascist Behind #Pride #Attack.

#Fascist #Polish #AttorneyGeneral and #JusticeMinister #ZbiegnewZiobro ordered the #earlyrelease of a #farright #extremist who snatched a woman’s #rainbow #bag ahead of a #Pride #parade.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #Poland #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #DefundPoland

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjgqw/poland-attorney-general-neofascist-pride-rainbow-bag

So I had a kind of thought-avanlanche in response to a tweet @FlintDibble posted over on the birdsite... and since I thought it might be of interest to #archaeology folks here, I'm stitching it together (with some minor edits for coherence and to fix typos) here:

Honestly, now that I think about it... it's totally unsurprising that the tinfoil-hat folks who are into #Atlantis would trust these old narratives more than modern research.

After all, one of the core unspoken assumptions that fuels most #Occult thinking is that older knowledge is "better".

As historian Wouter Hanegraaff notes, by Late Antiquity (if not before), "innumerable sources refer to the reigning idea that the most ancient 'barbarian' peoples possessed a pure and superior science and wisdom, derived not from reason but from direct mystical access to the divine and that all the important Greek philosophers up to and including Plato had received their 'philosophy'
from these sources" (Hanegraaff 2009, "The Pagan Who Came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic Orientalism", p. 34).

So yeah, the idea that the age of a source of knowledge somehow increases its purity is itself an ancient one -- and the idea still fuels occult thinking right up to the present day.

That's probably a big part of the reason why so many of these new-age tinfoil-hat types who are obsessed with some idea that Atlantis was a "lost global civilization" are quick to denigrate contemporary science-based archaeology -- their whole paradigm assumes that when a modern source of knowledge contradicts a more ancient one, the more ancient is *inherently* better by definition. And that notion is itself a product of millennia of tradition within Western occult thinking, so it ALSO has the value of age to "recommend" it.

And it's ALSO probably a big part of the reason why Graham Hancock's bullshit has been so rapidly embraced by the #Neofascist #FarRight: tinfoil-hat types who are already primed to accept the idea that ancient knowledge is "pure" and "better" than modern science are an ideal target audience for propaganda by said neo-fascists, because the latter can appeal to all sorts of "ancient" ideas to back their bullshit claims. (And their ideology is ALL ABOUT "purity", as they choose to define it.)

The fact that neo-fascists are supporting all kinds of nonsense based on some putatively "ancient" origin, up to and including dubious early colonial narratives, thus makes perfect sense. It's a convenient means for them to get more people to reject ALL non-aligned modern scholarship as "revisionist woke trash".

In other words, these "harmless" New Age conspiracy theories are in fact an ideal recruiting ground for the neo-fascists because adherents are already halfway down the road of rejecting undesired realities as it is, and because these occult-tinged conspiracy theories have hard-wired within them the idea that older knowledge is inherently more "pure" or "better" than new knowledge.