I don't know why the myth of #EasterIsland being deforested to ecological collapse for the pointless ritual of putting up big heads is still being peddled about when #Nauru provides a much better and non-mythological example.

Here we have a tropical paradise that was strip mined to ecological oblivion by the greed of outsider capitalists and their willing compradores. It is a tale of capitalist greed laying waste to a complex ecosystem for the short term gain of the few. It even has the good old sub plot of promises that the spectacular wealth from the phosphate would fund the impossible project of ecological restoration. Sound familiar?

Oh, I do know why the Easter Island myth gets peddled, racism. It easy for white people to think that indigenous people are stupid but pure and reveal something about the human condition that is masked by modern, European sophistication. It is hard for us to think that our cultural sophistication isn't anything but naked greed and brutality.

From the slave ships, through the Pacific Phosphate Company, to Royal Dutch Shell, it is the Hobbsean ideology of the European bourgeoisie that remains. That is what we need to struggle against if the whole earth is not to go the way of Nauru.

5/8 Dr. Steeves conitnues: "I read about those 10 sites. And every time you got a paper, they mentioned another site, another site. In two weeks, I had 500 sites that were older than 12,000 years."

FIVE HUNDRED sites - right here in North America - that are older than 12,000 years.

#Giza, right. #Stonehenge, sure. #EasterIsland. You bet. Etc. All in exotic far away places. How many North Americans know there are hundreds of sites right here?

Why so few?

#Cult of science suppressing evidence.

nice, great, wonderful that after so long this is found, a ‘new’. old statue 🤩

#moais
#statue
#easterisland

https://nos.nl/l/2465886
https://nos.nl/l/2465886

screenshot NOS

A newly discovered Moai sculpture on Easter Island resurfaces archaeologists’ long-standing questions about the Rapa Nui society.

#ArtNews #Archaeology #Discovery #EasterIsland

https://hyperallergic.com/804603/how-did-a-moai-statue-end-up-in-a-lagoon/

Dr. Steeves conitnues: "I read about those 10 sites. And every time you got a paper, they mentioned another site, another site. In two weeks, I had 500 sites that were older than 12,000 years."

FIVE HUNDRED sites - right here in North America - that are older than 12,000 years.

#Giza, right. #Stonehenge, sure. #EasterIsland. You bet. Etc. All in exotic far away places. How many North Americans know there are hundreds of sites right here?

Why so few?

#Cult of science suppressing evidence.

I feel privileged to have seen five total solar eclipses (so far). Here's a photo of the totally eclipsed sun above the moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in 2010: #photography #astrophotography #EasterIsland)

Dozens of moai statues damaged in wildfires, some of them irreparable, Easter Island

They are slowly destroying history!

https://buff.ly/3Vsc91R #wildfire #fire #RapaNui #RanoRaraku #EasterIsland #Moai #MoaiQuarry

Dozens of moai statues damaged in wildfires, some of them irreparable, Easter Island

They are slowly destroying history!

https://buff.ly/3Vsc91R #wildfire #fire #RapaNui #RanoRaraku #EasterIsland #Moai #MoaiQuarry

Shallow M6.4 earthquake hits Easter Island region https://buff.ly/3PhdnJ2 #earthquake #EasterIsland

Shallow M6.4 earthquake hits Easter Island region https://buff.ly/3PhdnJ2 #earthquake #EasterIsland

How the Nature and the Culture of #EasterIsland Was Destoyed:
https://karl-voit.at/2021/09/16/easter-island-demise

I had no idea that the common theory of the demise is most probably completely wrong. 😲

#publicvoit #history #documentory #RapaNui