No These documentaries seem to be propaganda for both side of the political spectrum.
I remember watching a documentary on Dragons. I was hoping getting a more historical reference on how ancient people across cultures had dragons, dinosaur bones, other larger reptiles. It kinda started out like that, then it degraded into some right wing conspiracy, where Dragons still exist, as well as Dinosaurs, well into human history, and that we cannot trust radioactive dating... I turned it off to a point where they
That's not particularly a right-wing belief. I've got a very left wing friend who believes in Bigfoot, yetis, extant dinosaurs, etc. (I haven't heard him claim that he believes in dragons, but it sure wouldn't surprise me.) His current hobbyhorse is that ants in the amazon harness electric eels to provide their cities with electricity.
That kind of belief is neither left wing nor right wing, and it shows up on both sides, and also in the middle.
P.S.: That same friend is an accomplished mathematician and logician, and was a quite decent computer programmer specializing in graphics. So being smart is not guarantee.
Cryptozoology is a real thing, and while evidence is scant for many of the more fantastical claims, most are not technically impossible, and many have plausible seeds of truth.
That there is some alpine community of 10' tall white haired bests is excruciatingly unlikely, but it is not implausible that there might be (or was) a rare, undocumented species of high elevation primate.
You Get Propaganda (Score:2, Funny)
or you get nothing.
Your welcome.
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You Get Wokeium
or you get nothing.
ftfy.
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No These documentaries seem to be propaganda for both side of the political spectrum.
I remember watching a documentary on Dragons. I was hoping getting a more historical reference on how ancient people across cultures had dragons, dinosaur bones, other larger reptiles. It kinda started out like that, then it degraded into some right wing conspiracy, where Dragons still exist, as well as Dinosaurs, well into human history, and that we cannot trust radioactive dating... I turned it off to a point where they
Re:You Get Propaganda (Score:5, Interesting)
That's not particularly a right-wing belief. I've got a very left wing friend who believes in Bigfoot, yetis, extant dinosaurs, etc. (I haven't heard him claim that he believes in dragons, but it sure wouldn't surprise me.) His current hobbyhorse is that ants in the amazon harness electric eels to provide their cities with electricity.
That kind of belief is neither left wing nor right wing, and it shows up on both sides, and also in the middle.
P.S.: That same friend is an accomplished mathematician and logician, and was a quite decent computer programmer specializing in graphics. So being smart is not guarantee.
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Cryptozoology is a real thing, and while evidence is scant for many of the more fantastical claims, most are not technically impossible, and many have plausible seeds of truth.
That there is some alpine community of 10' tall white haired bests is excruciatingly unlikely, but it is not implausible that there might be (or was) a rare, undocumented species of high elevation primate.
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It wasn't about the Dragons that made it Right wing, it is when it went into Creationism, Anti-Science, and I turned it off before it went too far.