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What is the ideological goal of ancient aliens/ancient technology theories? (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by keepcarrot@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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It does often seem to be correlated to reactionary conspiracy sentiments. There is the "non-white people could not have possibly stacked rocks this big!" thing

I guess also flat earth?

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[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 37 points 7 months ago

I think a lot of it is ego protection for people who don't want to grapple with themselves not understanding how the world is put together. "well, I can't figure out how to stack rocks, so how could someone else 5000 years ago have done it? something like this can only have been done by hyper-advanced technology" like John Fetterman recently being scared shitless by some pipework