Egyptologist Andrei Zverev claims that he and his team have uncovered concrete evidence that the Egyptians had predicted the catastrophe of “The Fall” as far back as 1600 BC. In a hitherto unexplored (and as Zverev would have it, undisclosed) chamber of the tomb complex of Ramses II, Zverev discovered a partially fragmented wall painting that depicted the standard journey into the underworld that most funerary decorations depict. One portion of it, however, was found to be thematically and stylistically different than the rest. Zverev, of course, translated the inscription that accompanied the painting…and you can see where this story is heading, can’t you? You can read the rest and point and laugh here.
I don’t mean to be flippant – well, maybe just a little – but it is difficult not to dismiss these so called theories as little more than attention-seeking swill. Every few months, some theory or another experiences a meteoric rise in popularity, only to fade into obscurity a short while later. I am fairly sure that whichever obscure descendant of Ramses that is buried in that tomb would be horrified to find his funerary decorations turned into fodder for the 6 o’clock news. As always, I maintain that our ancient ancestors could barely predict the reality of our world (could you predict the resilience of the Internet in the aftermath of the Fall?), much less the end of it.
It is interesting, however, that no credible explanation for the Fall has ever been proposed. Of course, the government put forth an explanation coached with all the necessary bureaucratic terms; the Fall was a confluence of various factors, the fault of a computer glitch, a symptom of the ailing global markets, the act of God, no one really knows but back to our regularly scheduled programming and please vote for us come November.
Popular opinion, meanwhile, heaped the blame liberally on any number of groups – the Arabs, the Islamic extremists, the Islamic revolutionaries, the Christian far right, Tibetan Buddhists, the kelptocrats, the tweakers, the disaffected youth, aging baby boomers, the North Koreans, the Communists, the Anarcho-Capitalists, the New Babylonians, rogue agents from the Axis of Evil, the Reclaimers, the Reformers, and the End is Nigh street preachers. Or maybe, all of the above.
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I wouldn’t dismiss the theory of a computer quirk quite so readily, though I am much more likely to ascribe malicious intent to it than our politicians. Imagine, if you will, a Trojan, a discreet package of encrypted data, sent to infiltrate machines around the world; the Trojan lies dormant until its creator (and I have a few opinions as to who this might be and it starts with C ends with A) sends a signal. Maybe it’s timed. Maybe it’s timed in such a way that it’s localized to a certain time zone or a certain area. Say its New York City. Computer start malfunctioning. At first, its no big deal but then the number of computers starts increasing and the entire network starts disintegrating. At the same time, millions of people – housewives, politicians, financial wizards, what-have-you – are accessing the network as it starts failing. Again, at first its no big deal. And then the damage becomes widespread. Its city-wide, county-wide, state-wide, region-wide and then suddenly you have the failure of the electric grid. Blackout. Other utilities stop working. People can’t access their bankaccounts, they can’t talk to each other, they can’t even turn on the lights in their living room. Widespread Panic, and panic is about as contagious as influenza.
if only there was more concrete information about the events directly leading to and following the fall. i get my hopes up whenever there’s new of a so-called hidden trove of memory project documents only to crash and burn each time
The “Memory Project” is pretty much an ideological hoax created by the government in order to subdue the population. Searching for the origin of the fall. Searching for our memories. Searching for the truth. All of that distracts us from present day politics, where the government and the multinationals are robbing us blind.
okay, I’m willing to admit that there is a strong possibility that would you described actually occurred. but at the same, CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION. How do we know what was the original cause? who ate the apple, to use a dated reference.
Semantics, purview of those who can no longer muster up an adequate argument 🙂