When you were in school and you first learned about the story of Helen of Troy (which originated approximately 5000 years ago in the Mycenaean age), did you wonder how such an old story started? Or how everyday people around her saw her? Did her neighbors think she was hot enough to talk about for 5000 years? Or when you learned about Jesus walking on water, did you think like I did, “If I were in the next fishing village over and somebody told me a man was walking on water, I’d have thought they were full of shit even if I heard about it that same day or even as the men got off the ship talking about it back on shore.”? I always wondered about stories like that – like did the man or woman cleaning out Alexander’s chamber pot think he was so great? Essentially I always wondered what it was like on the ground when these longlived stories started, and how did some of these truly bullshit stories which we call “myths” now (cause we don’t wanna call our ancestors liars or F**kin’ idiots) get started – - AND why were they allowed to perpetuate into perpetuity when YOU KNOW most of the people could not possibly have believed that a crazy old man divided a sea!
Well, I think I know how it starts now. See the video. In the next video, they’ll have Palin ‘liberate the entire free world from tyranny.’ And these shitty stories will continue because the stupid ones ALWAYS procreate.
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Well, the bible is full of nonsense. But I love the stories of ancient Greece and ancient Rom. Nowadays it is different, it is much more difficult to create a myth as people are much more educated and have different kind of media to inform themselves. Unless you live in a brutal dictatorship like North Korea or in a dictatorship with a pretty facade like China where it is easy to sped lies, unbelievable stories cannot be spread like in the past.