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The Philistines are everywhere. I of the world, that they in themselves I have an idea that this was the first
believe that, like when they open the represent the highest achievement example of “normal” practice. Homo
Olympics with the blazing torches, of humankind because they are the sapiens arrives in Europe. What do
we should have some young person leaders. they do? They kill all the blokes and
running around the museum all the marry the women. They’re probably
time, passing the torches round and The fact is that the human race has dark looking, hairy and all sorts of
round and round. not evolved at all in any way which things like that.
is noticeable or important. The
So, you think there should be some corollary of that is that human beings You know people all over Britain
international movement? have been making the same mistakes are looking into their DNA to find
I would think so. All the directors over and over. If you consider what’s out about their roots. The fact is
of those museums should know that happened since the beginning of that DNA contains a good amount
they’re holding hands, linking arms, writing, what with nations with of stuff from the Neanderthals, and
and if someone’s rude about St. tyrants and judicious religious when it was first published people
Petersburg, well, just a minute, and leaders as well as corrupt ones, it’s gave the impression that a couple
then the other museums will come the same all the way through. It is an of Neanderthal girls got a bit drunk
down on the offender. unchanging disaster because people at the party and ended up with an
are not living by intelligence but sex unwanted pregnancy and that’s how
What about recruitment to your drive, greed, commerce, violence, all we have it in our genetic pool. But
field? those things. of course, it isn’t. They must have
It’s not good because of the disasters murdered the men, all of them,
of how museums are treated. It’s amazing to me that the world and married the women. And that
This country has been financially does work at all when people are so explains why it’s still such a strong
undermined. People in Britain say uncivilized. It’s really extraordinary trait. The whites come, they like the
that science is of prime importance that murder doesn’t happen every land, they kill off the indigenous
and the arts generally aren’t. By arts I five minutes. I have a kind of naive people, marry their women. So, in
mean theaters, cinema, painting and idea that if teachers, clergymen and the very first stage of history, we
all that. “We do not really need that, other such people had a really good have this happen like the Americans
and it’s not so important.” Museum grasp of what we can see humans with the Indians and the Australians
departments, which are in the arts have done since they arrived, they’d with the Aboriginals.
suffer badly. They don’t teach Latin be a bit more modest about being
and Greek very much anymore, dogmatic. Things like racial prejudice are there
which used to be the staple of proper from the beginning of the species. It
education. Before Homo sapiens, there were seems endemic to the human race
the Neanderthals. I don’t know to be religious – and to be racially
Several of the departments where how many hundreds of thousands prejudiced against the other. So, it’s
Assyriology, cuneiform used to of years they lived in Europe before very difficult to expect racism to
be taught don’t do it anymore. So, Homo sapiens turned up. The thing disappear. I think we should take
it’s shrinking. There are countries, about them is they were physically history and archaeology and writing
Holland, Germany, America and slight in build compared to us but as a kind of tapestry: the more you
France and other places, where there their brain capacity was slightly know of the stitching, the more
are or have been strong traditions, larger. They survived ice ages and you understand why we’re in such a
but all over the place, people who are ate mammoths, and they obviously mess.
in charge of money think, “Well, do had a language and they married
we really need this? Is it of any use?” their sisters and bred, and they were Apart from YouTube do you have
healthy and strong individuals and other channels that people can
I believe in being assertive in saying they buried their dead. watch?
why it’s important. There are lots of The thing about the British Museum
really good reasons, and one involves But the interesting thing is that for and YouTube is that they get people
politicians. It’s very common for about 600,000 years they were here who know about their own subject,
them to think, when they look back then homo sapiens arrived and very and who are enthusiastic about it,
on what they know about the history soon afterwards they disappeared. and then they do videos and post

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