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• Ozymandias Strikes Yet Again

When I was in college, I wrote a paper called “Ozymandias Strikes Again”. Well, actually, I wrote the paper in high school for AP English and just updated it and turned it in as my final research writing assignment for “Writing II”. Hey, I was a mechanical engineering major for cryin’ out loud and had already wiggled my way out of “Writing I”. What do you expect? What is an engineer’s purpose in life if not efficiency?

Anyway, the paper was primarily based upon a book by Dr. Joseph Davidovits and Margie Morris titled “The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved”. In fact, it was completely based on it but I had to come up with some other bullshit sources to fill up the bibliography. The basic premise of the book was that the pyramids were not chiseled out of stone but were instead actually cast as high quality limestone concrete that utilized high-tech geopolymers, revolutionary materials (for modern science) that bind stone together.

I do not have the space here to go into all of the details of why this is the correct analysis. The evidence that Dr. Davidovits cites is significant and, in my opinion, overwhelming. This includes an examination of the physical materials themselves as well as ancient religious rituals and beliefs. Go read the book. It explains all outstanding scientific dilemmas regarding the pyramids, including the fact that the tools the Egyptians wielded at the time were not capable of chiseling limestone, the fact that no tool markings are found on Old Kingdom pyramid blocks, the proven implausibility; if not downright impossibility, of “pulling and hoisting” theories and the great precision with which the stones were manufactured and placed. Small, insignificant stuff like that. Why this theory has not gained wider acceptance is a complete mystery to me. I STILL see The History Channel programs where they blather about chiseling, pulling, hoisting and aliens, etc. Sigh.

The paper opened with Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”, my all time favorite poem. In fact, it is one of the only poems I even find tolerable. Side note, poems tend to irritate me. Just say what the hell you are trying to say already. Don’t get fancy and smart, just freakin’ say it. I shouldn’t have to know Sanskrit to understand your stupid poem. Anyway, because I like it so much, here it is:

Now, the “traditional” interpretation of this poem can basically be summed up as, “Don’t get all overconfident and egomaniacal, you’re just a pathetic, short-lived human and your works aren’t shit in the grand scheme of things.” This is a good analysis and a good thing to keep in mind. However, I decided to take a different interpretation. After reading Davidovits and Morris, I took the interpretation that Ozymandias was the man and it is modern science that is pathetic, weak and overconfident because Ozymandias wielded technology that modern science did not invent until 4,000 years later. Stupid, weak-ass science.

The paper ended with this paragraph...

“How much greater our society and culture might be today if we could have preserved the technology of the past. Mighty modern science should despair that it has been fooled for over 4,000 years by the omnipotent Ozymandias.

'The lone and level sands stretch far away.' ”

Hey, it got me an “A” in both high school and college, and I only had to write it once, so quit laughing C+ boy.

Anyway, the point is that we have the misperception that our culture is at the height of all technologies, but we are really just at the height of SOME technologies, the technologies upon which our culture is currently based. Other cultures throughout history have had better technology than our own. For instance, given that the Egyptians’ main building material was stone, their technology for stone construction was as advanced or more advanced than our own.

Technologies get lost all the time. For instance, the Fox Fire series of books that document the technologies of the Appalachian “hillbillies”. If those books did not exist, if the technology had not been written down, much of that technology and know-how might have been lost. And then we couldn’t home brew 190 proof grain alcohol, baby! But all that is a topic for another, upcoming essay. The lost technology stuff and how to prevent it; not how to build a still, or further, obscure Jackal references.

The point of this paper is to let everyone in on yet another reinvention of the wheel, DNA. Genetics is all the rage nowadays. Our current science has finally let us in on all of the “secrets” of genetics and it is going to do all these great things for us, right? Well, the ancient Greeks are laughing their asses off right now over how crappy and weak our current science is. They had this DNA stuff figured out thousands of years ago.

What? What did I say? Yes, I said the Greeks had DNA figured out ages ago. How do I know that? Simple, just look at Greek mythology. It is pretty much spelled out. In Greek mythology, you had the three Fates, C-something, L-something and A-something. These crones spun a “thread” for each baby that was born. This “thread” held all of the events that were going to happen to that individual during their life. C-something “spun” the thread, L-something measured it and A-something cut it. This is the basis for Greek tragedy, the interplay of how hapless mortals try to thwart the Fates but the Fates always win.

Now, there was a forth Fate, Fortune, T-something, that was sometimes included in with the three Fates. Fortune could have an effect on and influence one’s Fate. For instance, Zeus wanted to nail this chick that was fated to have a son that would be greater than his father. Prometheus, my all-time favorite Olympian; of course, let Zeus in on this fact and Zeus married the chick to someone else instead of impregnating her and eventually being ousted as ruler of the gods. Her son ended up being Achilles, who was greater than his father, but not greater than Zeus.

So our choices, Fortune, can have an effect on our lives, but cannot change Fate, genetics. So, four components end up deciding everything about one’s life. Three of these are grouped together as Fate and the other one, Fortune, also has an effect but remains distinct from the other three. Drum roll…

Now here’s where it gets interesting. DNA is made up of four; count them four, proteins that are short-hand labeled, G, C, A and T. These four proteins come in groups of three; count them three, letter words. DNA is a double-helix formation; two strands “spun” together, in a single, long chain. Hmmm…sounds an awful lot like a spun thread. And, as modern science can attest, each individual has his or her own, unique DNA strand and this DNA strand, or thread, controls quite a bit of an individual’s various traits in terms of appearance and attitude, maybe more than we even suspect. But, it is not completely controlled by it; there is also one’s environment and choices, or Fortune, which plays a part as well. But Fortune cannot trump one’s Fate, or genetics.

But wait, it gets even better. These DNA proteins follow certain rules. A and T bind together and G and C bind together such that they always come in pairs that join the two separate sides of the double-helix together. Now, because they always come in pairs, lazy scientists tend to only write down one side of the double-helix since that automatically tells you what the other side is; which is where you get ignorant movie titles like GATTACA. But that’s not really the way it works. If one side reads GATTACA, then the other, corresponding side would read CTAATGT. When you read them properly, in pairs, you would get GCATTATAATCGAT. And yes, the order DOES matter. So AT is NOT the same as TA. So let’s try to come up with all of the ways that we can combine these four proteins together, reading things properly in pairs and following the rules. We get:

Those are all of the unique four letter combinations, sequences, of these letters that can possibly be created following the rules of how the proteins combine. Guess what? There are twelve; count them twelve, of them, the exact same number of original Titans, as well as Olympians (plus Zeus, their ruler); the “immortals”, from Greek mythology. They’re “immortal” because every living thing will ALWAYS have these twelve sequences, traits, whatever, at the heart of who or what they are. And it is the interaction and breeding of these twelve Titans/Olympians, root genetic sequences, that generate all of the other humans and gods as well as the various conflicts and stories of Greek mythology, stories that have been recycled, and continue to be recycled, throughout history. Heh, wonder why? It couldn’t possibly be because those ARE all the stories, just like those ARE all the four letter combinations? Add to this the fact that since the earliest recorded history the symbol for medicine has been two serpents intertwined like a double-helix and do I really need to spell this out any further? Can you wrap your head around it?

So what am I saying? Well, I could say a lot of things here and I will elaborate on this in future essays, but the first and most obvious question that we must ask ourselves is this. What the hell were the ancient Greeks doing running around over 3,000 years ago with an understanding and mastery of DNA technology? Technology, perhaps THE most powerful technology ever, that we just began to puzzle out within the last 100 years or so. I don’t mean to be crude, but what the fuck?!?!?!?!! (It also makes you wonder if we got the name of the “G” protein correct, maybe we ought to call it “L”.)

I mean, there is coincidence and then there is shit like this. Is the hair on the back of your neck standing up yet? Now, to my mind, this can only be evidence of one and only one thing…aliens. Just kidding. Seriously though, what it is evidence of is a lost technology. Not just the lost technology of DNA, but the lost technology that allowed the ancient Greeks to puzzle out DNA.

I’m not sure how much I actually want to speculate about exactly what or where this technology came from or went to, that is how you end up being labeled a crackpot. But, I am sure that the obvious conspiracy theories come to mind, Atlantis, aliens, etc. While all of these theories are certainly possible and have the added benefit of not being able to be proven without some spaceships showing up in orbit or an island rising up out of the ocean, I tend to think in more mundane and simpler terms. To my mind, the most obvious explanation falls along the lines of psychics, or the science regarding the power of the mind. I tend to believe that enough has been proven regarding psychic abilities that this is the most likely source for this lost technology. Call it “sorcery” or “magic” or whatever. I’ll leave it at that for now.

But, regardless of what the technology is, if there ARE aliens out there watching us, they just HAVE to be slapping their foreheads with their hands, tentacles or whatever and giving themselves welts. I mean, to have such a powerful technology spelled out for us in our earliest literature and to have us simply ignore it for thousands of years, we have to be the stupidest life in the universe, let alone the planet.

“The lone and level universe stretches far away.”