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The Lost Civilization of Lemuria: The Rise and Fall of the World's Oldest Culture
Frank Joseph
3.4 AVERAGE
1 review for:
The Lost Civilization of Lemuria: The Rise and Fall of the World's Oldest Culture
Frank Joseph
3.4 AVERAGE
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Out of curiosity, I looked up the author after finishing reading the book. I discovered that Frank Joseph is the pain name of one, Frank Collins, pictured even here, in Nazi branding and was once a leader in the Nationalist Socialist White People's Party. I should have been more critical when I noticed how many times he mentioned "white" people in his writing. It made me uncomfortable, but I gave it a pass at the time because it was obvious that he was going up against the known narrative. Now, however, I feel that everything I read is of dubious veracity. I remain interested in the subject, as I was before I picked up the book, but feel I need to scrub all of this from my mind and start over. There was clearly a racist motivation behind the research and that leaves it entirely suspect.
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The text was dense, the name dropping intense. And sometimes, I felt the conclusions were crammed in or forced to fit. However, the preponderance of examples weighed heavily in the author's favor and I found myself continuing to read.
In the end, I'm not totally satisfied that ancient Lemuria is a forgone conclusion, but I am intensely curious and believe that history as it is concluded in our textbooks today has some serious holes. For one, discounting the oral history of so many people groups seems like cutting off our nose to spite our face in the search for the origins of cultures.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the author after finishing reading the book. I discovered that Frank Joseph is the pain name of one, Frank Collins, pictured even here, in Nazi branding and was once a leader in the Nationalist Socialist White People's Party. I should have been more critical when I noticed how many times he mentioned "white" people in his writing. It made me uncomfortable, but I gave it a pass at the time because it was obvious that he was going up against the known narrative. Now, however, I feel that everything I read is of dubious veracity. I remain interested in the subject, as I was before I picked up the book, but feel I need to scrub all of this from my mind and start over. There was clearly a racist motivation behind the research and that leaves it entirely suspect.
________
The text was dense, the name dropping intense. And sometimes, I felt the conclusions were crammed in or forced to fit. However, the preponderance of examples weighed heavily in the author's favor and I found myself continuing to read.
In the end, I'm not totally satisfied that ancient Lemuria is a forgone conclusion, but I am intensely curious and believe that history as it is concluded in our textbooks today has some serious holes. For one, discounting the oral history of so many people groups seems like cutting off our nose to spite our face in the search for the origins of cultures.