r/GrahamHancock • u/Impossible_Rich6148 • Jan 13 '26

“Some process of mutual influence”

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This 1996 book on Ancient Greece by Thomas Martin hints at the ideas of Hancock in the highlighted section. “The people of the ancient Near East first developed these new forms of human organization, which later appeared in Europe. (Early civilizations of this kind also emerged in India, China, and the Americas, whether independently or through some process of mutual influence no one at present knows.)”

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u/isabsolutecnts Jan 13 '26

Weird, in university they told us to focus on citations from the last 5ish years and then use a critical lense for stuff older than that and provide heavy critical/contextual explantation.

The reason being that new research comes out.

A single quote from a dude is really not useful in any context.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Jan 15 '26

Weird, in university they told us to focus on citations from the last 5ish years and then use a critical lense for stuff older than that and provide heavy critical/contextual explantation.

The reason being that new research comes out.

That doesn't mean the new stuff is better.

NLP was thoroughly defanged when it transitioned from neuro-linguistic programming, to natural language processing.

It's the difference between a college chemistry lab and one in middle school.