Do you buy strawmen by bulk, and thus get a discount? I never told you what I do or don't believe. You wanted something "significant" and I gave rapes, robberies, and murder. Each one of which is a tragedy.
Why do you think they are being allowed to come in?
It seems you've answered your own question with your second response.
The future belongs to those who show up.
You're moving the goalposts. You wanted something "significant" and a lot of crime is "significant". It's a tragedy, every single murder or rape or robbery.
Why do YOU think there were allowed in?
Of course. Clearly.
What a logical fallacy. Just because the pyramids are the most famous of the legacies of the ancient Egyptians, it doesn't mean that it's their only legacy. It's like saying Napoleon was the only famous person from France because he is the most famous.
What's the use of Mt. Rushmore? The Colossus of Rhodes? The Acropolis?
As opposed to what country that isn't?
It's clown WORLD nigga.
If you think the only legacy of the roughly 3,000 years of Egyptian civilization is the pyramids, then you're sorely mistaken. Even if it was just the pyramids, let me tell you my friend, were man to disappear from the earth tomorrow, the pyramids would be proof of intelligent life on this planet for another 50,000 years.
A single reason? Why would we spend billions to do any great thing when it's all dust and ashes in the long run.
Aside from the rapes and murders, you mean? A single life lost, after all, is a tragedy but when does it become a statistic. Give me a number please.
And no, they are not "more law abiding" because you have to compare the crime illegals commit with the null, which is zero.
I don't think you really grasp how the pharoah represented the civilization itself. He was both a flag, a monument, a state religion, a war leader, a god king, and intecessor with the rest of the gods. He was that civilization, especially to the peasants who never saw him. Stop thinking like an Athenian or Greek. It's like imagining that because you have $120 dollars in your wallet, you know what it's like to be as rich as Bill Gates.
Could we build a copy of the great pyramid? I'm not sure, even if we could use modern technology to, theoretically, make it easier. And it's only partially due to motivation.
The pyramids were built for the glory of that civilization. People are just a tiny fraction of themselves like honey-bees, who work for the collective. It's why fascism has an innate appeal. A pyramid was one way they could express that glory.
There are other ways in which a modern civilization can do a mammoth accomplishment for the glory of their civilization. Such things include building the tallest building in the world, or landing on the moon, or a massive art project like Mount Rushmore.
What my question is getting at, is not the secret alien tech aspect, which I don't believe, but whether it's possible man could relearn these skills without sufficient motivation. And if man could have these skills atrophy in one area, why not a second? That's where I'm developing the argument. Your somewhat on the right track then.
It's all so clear and obvious.
No, I don't think the ancient Egyptians used special secret tech.
I'm not an construction engineer, I don't care about the details of the construction, such as how we cut the rock. Maybe we use rock saws and polish them which wire brushes. I don't care, just using the most efficient modern methods. Why quibble about the how?
Purpose? The purpose to them was to magnify the greatness of their civilization, as embodied in their god-king the pharaoh. That's reason enough for them. Also, it kept the peasants busy outside growing season and they got some money for the work.
What narrative? I'm not pushing any secret narrative. I'm asking a question.
Yea, but a giant pyramid, built to the exact specifications. Perfectly lined up with the north star, smooth sided (before the arabs mucked it up) seams so tight a piece of paper wouldn't fit in. No mortar. Hidden rooms and tunnels. etc. etc.
Could we do it today, even using jackhammers to remove the stone and cranes to put it on trucks to bring it in from the quarry and large forklifts to put them in place, and steel girders to build a ramp to get the stones to the top.
Could we do it?
Frankly I'm skeptical.
50,000 Nubian slaves won't get shit built without someone there with a plumb bob and the know how.
Same materials, the stones of the same type and size and weight.
Good one, hahah. DBZ.
"so practically he stated..."
No, no he didn't.
No, but it can't be that different from dogecoin or other silly meme coins.
The purpose of art, like a painting, is to show beauty. The goal of good art is to evoke an emotion in the viewer. Yet a painting, which has the express purpose of showing beauty to evoke emotions can also be an investment. Or art can be used to launder money. Or as a store of value. Art, by metaphorical coincidence, can be about money to those who didn't create it, even as those who create it can use the creation of it to make a living.
If you think this analogy doesn't suit crypto, then you need to attack the analogy.
You want decentralized, get monero in a cold wallet.
Otherwise, crypto is just another form of investment at this point.
Part of the issue is "shrinkage" yes. They can't say that in the mainstream press usually.
"What a wonderful world"
Great song. I need to see an edit of that playing over some bad stuff going down to let it sink in.