Ep 80: The Graham Hancock and Alex Jones Theory of History.

The Mindcrime Liberty Show is joined by Terminal Philosophy for the third time to discuss two popular figures who dispense taboo ideas to the public and offer an alternative view. What is the role of persons like Graham Hancock and Alex Jones? Are they merely lying grifters, trying to sell content to gullible "idiots" as their mainstream critiques argue? Are they more right about the past than the mainstream itself even though they don't have the prestige and institutional resources that the mainstream has? Are they at minimum a necessary corrective or counterbalance which asks questions which one isn't allowed to ask? For Hancock two question he asks are how can these large stone buildings be built considering that it would be difficult to do so today and why does Plato seem to think advanced civilization existed before a huge flood? For Jones it is why are politicians going to private meetings where an owl god is worshiped and why is there this guy with a private island who has lots of money who mysteriously died? Do Jones and Hancock have a better theory of the past than the mainstream? What is the future of them and figures like them?