#ancientman

It is no doubt in my mind that human beings made this site. All over the world in ancient times, many different cultures were making megalithic sites that we can only speculate the purposes. This one I come back to time and time again, just wondering...how. How? How. I can’t fathom how they did this without some form of technology that is above what history gives them credit for. If any. Since so little is really known about the people who made Puma Punku. Whether it was aliens who gave it to them or not, something has been lost to time in our world: technology and the secrets to how ancient people constructed enormous buildings and monuments out of stone. A 100 ton stone or even heavier. Why would people do this if it was difficult? No one today would want to, not even with our modern technology. We can’re replicate these feats. 

Which brings me to a point of contention: the belief that ancient man was less intelligent than we are today. Excuse me, but these so called unintelligent people constructed these huge monuments, temples and complexes...cities and tombs. They paved the way for modern society and religion. We are not more intelligent than they are, we simply know more about things because we have developed the means to find knowledge in ways they were limited to. But having knowledge isn’t the same as intelligence. There is wisdom from these distant periods of history that still hold true today. How much have we, as a species, really advanced? Are we still not making the same mistakes in some ways? And haven’t we lost so much due to the industrial and scientific revolution.

That isn’t to knock either entirely. Science and industry have made great contributions to society and the world. But they have also been detrimental in other ways. With each advancement we gain and lose. In some ways we have stayed in the same place. War, hate, dogma of religion, the illusion of separation between cultures and races. Diversity is valid, beautiful. But at the end of the day, we are different but the same, and certainly not separate. 

Sometimes I play this game of imagination. What will the future people of this world think when they look back on our period in history? When we are all dust and bones in the ground. Our cities either exist or were destroyed. Maybe climate change will have altered the continents of the earth. Maybe cities and places will be lost. But ultimately they are going to remark on how stupid humanity was during this time for accelerating climate change, When they had the option to change how they did things, but chose not to due to financial greed and capitalism. I’m not a communist by any stretch, but I also know money isn’t worth killing the planet we live on. Because....where are we going to go? Mars? I believe scientists want to terra form Mars, but that would take hundreds or more years to achieve. Where would we go, and what would we do, if we destroyed our planet?

When you take a look at this image of Puma Punku, and imagine the society who lived there. Yes, they had waste and pollutants, but not to the devastating level that we do. This is all that remains. Not chemicals in the ground, toxins and deformities in the animals. Just stone ruins we could never replicate. They understood the balance between man and the earth. An ancient relationship that has been lost, at least in American culture.