I've been waiting for days, literally days, I tell you, to be able to use this link:
http://blackbag.gawker.com/is-ancien...man-1694539419
"Can you recall your middle-school social studies lessons? How, at some willowy point in your 11th or 12th year, you learned that recorded history begins with the appearance of writing? There were the Mesopotamians with their cuneiform scripts; the Egyptians' hieroglyphs and demotic scrawls; and later, the Greeks and Romans, whose societies form the backbone, for better or worse, of our own—if only because they kept such meticulous records.
We have all sought and found these connections to our past—in museums, in books, in the ground. This is our inheritance. And it is ingrained in us so early, so matter-of-factly, that it permeates most of our existences without demanding critical reflection.
What if it's all bullshit?"
After all, we just take it on faith, because we were taught by somebody, who was taught by somebody, who...
Kasparov buys it, and we all know he's WAY smarter than I am. Everything we know is wrong. Everything! Six thousand years? It's way less than that.
Seriously. Read it. It's worth your time.
Thanks,
Bill