Richard Stanley
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During the mid 20th Century it ironically became the intellectual and academic vogue to pooh-poo the notion of Plato's description of Atlantis, because ... there is no evidence of such a claim in on the seafloor of the Atlantic, or any other alternative place that has been suggested. The 'irony' is that, at that very same time, people called 'scientists' were piling up paper after paper stating that there was indeed numerous geological evidences that provide plausibility that there was indeed either an island or microcontinent, especially around the Azores sub-surface plateau. None of them invoked the name Atlantis, and likely had no thought of such as they were performing their research.
Below are parts 3 and 4 of a series discussing these papers. I have not provided parts 1 and 2 which discuss Plato's account and the associated mythology, such as Phaeton's crash of Daddy's chariot, representing the comet which triggered the end of the last ice age ... at the very time when Plato states. Discussed in these introductiry works is that the Plato debunkers created straw man arguments such as converting Plato's 'island' into a 'continent'.
Of course, the implications of such make for a powerful existential motivation for the 'political' scientists of those days to deny this possibility / likelihood. Besides pure psychological reasons to obfuscate, there is also the elite issue of privileging ones kith and kin to increase their global odds of survival, as Plato stated that this phenomenon was repetitive and ... global in nature.
Below are parts 3 and 4 of a series discussing these papers. I have not provided parts 1 and 2 which discuss Plato's account and the associated mythology, such as Phaeton's crash of Daddy's chariot, representing the comet which triggered the end of the last ice age ... at the very time when Plato states. Discussed in these introductiry works is that the Plato debunkers created straw man arguments such as converting Plato's 'island' into a 'continent'.
Of course, the implications of such make for a powerful existential motivation for the 'political' scientists of those days to deny this possibility / likelihood. Besides pure psychological reasons to obfuscate, there is also the elite issue of privileging ones kith and kin to increase their global odds of survival, as Plato stated that this phenomenon was repetitive and ... global in nature.
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