OUCH! Debunking a Dream

Dreams of Atlantis…

Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse spins an enticing fantasy about lost civilizations with advanced technologies and space-bending beings. It sits right next to the part of my brain housing stories of space aliens. Both comfort me in some weird way. I’d like to think our current existence isn’t the pinnacle of achievement - it would be too depressing.

Just because it wasn’t built by white people, doesn’t mean it’s Atlantis.

It’s much better to imagine that once there was something magic that we lost. We just need to find it again and the world would be brighter and more optimistic.

Atlantis isn’t my only mental vice. During Torah study one week, I pointed to the part about giants before the great flood. “Giants! When are we going to talk about the giants?” It was tolerated, but not well-received.

This strain of conspiracy theory is the type of comforting myth that we talk about often in The Tell. As is mentioned often, anybody can fall prey to magical thinking,…