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The "A" Files...

Rebuilding the Pyramids--Not

A Column by Charles Miller

As I work at my computer in the dead of night, I reach back and tune
my TV to one of the many anthropomorphic "learning" channels--full of
"Earth's Rage" and "Volcano's Fury" and the "cruelty" of weather
patterns (replete with mood-music-per-cloud-formation); and there I
find one more in a procession of popular "scientists" declaring for
the umpteenth time that "We could not duplicate the Egyptian pyramids
today." Hoo-boy.
Are they suggesting that our technology is somehow inferior to that of
ancient Egypt? Don't you think the pyramid-builders would have bowed
in awe to a high-rise construction crane? "I gotta get one of those
things!"
We've seen and heard these ridiculous comparisons for
years--particularly on the so-called "learning" channels of cable TV.
Some bored anthropologists organize an effort to reconstruct a
miniature pyramid, or attempt to replicate the Easter Island monuments
(albeit on a vastly miniaturized scale), and they always fail
miserably. Oh, they lament, if we only had a grasp of the ancient
secrets...
Why can't modern science come out of the closet and say: "We're not
interested in the facts so much as we are in making politically
correct observations"... It seems the politically-correct thing to
observe, relative to ancient megalithic cultures, is that they were
possessed of "engineering knowledge we still don't fully understand."
But political-correctness aside, and truth be told, we in the modern
world have technology beyond the Egyptians' wildest dreams--we just
aren't motivated to accomplish anything on the scale of their
pyramids. No big secret.
Certainly, the pyramid-builders were working only with flesh and
mineral and gravity and motivation--No hydroelectric power sources, no
internal combustion engines, no industrial-grade lubricants. Yet "we
today" cannot replicate their accomplishments. Plainly, this is a
devolution in cultural motivation.
The statements "We cannot replicate the technology" and "Their
knowledge is lost to us today" are pure bullshit. The manpower
contained within a single American apartment complex could build a
formidable pyramid over the course of a decade or so: You get up in
the morning, you quarry granite, you haul granite, you place granite,
you do it non-stop for years. Simple.
But it's not a matter of manpower or technology--it's a matter of
motivation. The public perception is that, in the Egyptian days, there
were "Gods on Earth" in the guise of the Pharaohs. "Hey, get a
move-on! The Godhead is going to be pissed!" Sufficient motivation, I
can imagine, to throw together a pile a rocks.
Today, there is no God on Earth (if you accept Ted Turner's
estimation). In the West, there is an oppressive central government, a
decadent entertainment media, and a shallow educational establishment
that provides no motivation to cultural greatness. Western culture
today is based on division of population and importance of the
individual, rather than cultural unity toward a common cause. If we
cannot aspire to the greatness of building pyramids, it's not for a
lack of technology.
So, where do our supposedly "objective" researchers get off making
these politically correct statements about "lost" technology, when the
technology and resources--flesh, mineral, gravity and motivation--are
readily available?
It sounds like a cop-out on the part of "modern
scientists-"-mystifying Egyptian technology--rather than admitting
that we have a weaker culture today, incapable of mustering the unity
to accomplish great things.

Copyright 1999 by The Anomalist.
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