It is apparent that streaming shows of note often evoke aliens as the reason for past technological wonders. The unproven aliens are portrayed as the source of wonders found in Bible, peculiar representations in art and even the causality of future prophetic events. The popularity of these shows and vignette videos, notwithstanding, audiences do not pick up on glaring logical and parochial problems with these \" historical alien explanations \" .

The post modern Western minds of the audience succumb to the present arrogant assumptions that we are more advanced than any of our predecessors. This makes it possible for pervayers of the \" had to be aliens \" narrative to argue that a particular marvel of ancients could not have been of human origin a priori. This very assumption of our present-times superiority to the past peoples is supported in the mind of the audiences with technological anecdotes such as space walks, medical break throughs and so on.

However, these very anecdotes of our prowess are based on a measuring stick established by the very modern mind that judges us superior.

Shall we mention that the ancient Greeks, Western in attribution, believed that mankind actually regressed from its golden ages to its lesser state?

Shall we point out the evidence for sub-skull surgery was practiced among the Greeks? Do we point to their invention of the steam engine? Perhaps the Anthena invention of democrary, albeit a failure as a form of government, would be recalled by producers? While democracy fails, as does any such, the republic it lead to under the Romans lasted for hundreds of years longer than any of our modern ones.

If the producers of these shows were to widen the scale to measure western moderns against their forebears, then we would also excel over them in matters of whole-sale killing of millions over less than a century, false tolerance and near universal enslavement to debt.

Most notably it is the viewers, encumbered then by the \" facts of our superiority \" over the ancients, cannot but appeal to the alien \" gods \" as the only feasible source for feats we cannot do even today, namely such anomalies like the pyramids of Giza and artistic renderings. For if we were to attribute such things to humans, we may just have to debuse ourselves of our assumptions. Perhaps, just maybe, history is not a time line of linear developement -- forever improving on the past -- rather one of progression and regression.

Perhaps, having made the reader second-guess the producers appeal to \" aliens \" being the reason for anything \" beyond us today \" in the human historical record, he or she will permit that you cannot prove an argument from an assumption. And if the reader accept this, they may allow that the assumption of present superiority can not be used to prove \" the alien gods did this or that \" .

There is a wonderfully ingenious addictibe element in these shows, namely, a secret insiders view. Something you were sure you knew. Intelligence that you possess that only a few can comprehended. You the viewer have a special knowledge, an inner understanding , which is absent in others. You and we (the producers) know something that others do not or do not have the where-with-all to comprehend. Your ancestors, your forebears , do not have access to the kind of \" knowledge \" that we do. You are a special club. You are in the \" in group \" . You are of the enlightened. You have secret, and stay with our in crowd and we will keep you in the loop. And this would rope anyone in. It is self-complimenting. It feeds the notion of superiority.

In a word, there is nothing knew under the sun. In a different context, this would have been called gnosticism -- something that was roundly dealt with and defeated in the early years of Christianity. However, the gnosticism of today, and in this context is akin to having knowledged and the intelligence to understand something that is inaccessible to others. It is the difference between intelligence, and wisdom. Both of which arguably in short supply today among the Western minds. The furor in similar shows around the Gospel of Thomas for example, is a true example of religious gnostic book from the Bible. While both an example of Christian gnosticism, the book is also an illustration of modern gnosticism a neo-pagan sense. The Book adds nothing to Christianity, except to argue that an undocumented knowledge is required salvation ; making Christianity a religion of the few and not the many from simpliest to the greatest. And yet, this horrible vision of the few over the many, the special over the people, is readily embraced with all the trappings of assumed conspiracy and suppression by the fathers of the canon of Scriptures. And because those, who embrace it do not understand the context from where it came. Indeed they do not allow for the pontential that this Gospel was not the Christianity that Christ taught, nor of the scope for making believers of all nations.

As said, the extension of modern gnosticism, which the \" appeal to the alien gods \" is a part, leads to another assumption ; namely, the reading of historical events without care or grounding in the context in which those events occurred. Further, the modern mind reads into all of this with the \" infallible notion that our forbears \" deprived by their conspiracies and suppressions.

While ignoring the book titles directly appearing under the names of the \" experts \" these shows line up, and not realizing the value to producers of frequent advertisement breaks, there seems to be great suspicion regarding the Bible. While not defining the Bible as the one Christ and the early Church used as their Old Testament, nor defining the New Testament as the one the Church defined in the first few hundred years after Jesus, they favor the story of Enoch -- the figure wisked away to Heaven in a chariot of fire. Incidentally, this Old Testament man, whom is fated to return as he did not properly die, must certainly have gone to the great beyond by way of UFO. For the biblical author mistook the chariot as alien tech. Feeding into this notion are the evil Christian authorities, who decided precious little in the Enoch story was divinely inspired as books go. Yet these same authorities, presumed by moderns to be bad intentioned, included much more in the Scriptures than the most modern of freedom figther, Luther, did in his restructuring of Scripture.

Before we judge these Church fathers as far from well meaning, perhaps we may allow for gaps in the viewer's education of matters of the last 2000 years. Unlike the producers, who go out of their way today to not \" appeal to God \" but rather to \" alien gods \" , these fathers of the early Christian days were beset by every imaginable heresy -- with a few of these notions represented by adherents that readily put the fathers to persecution and death. Well, perhaps today, we are also beset by many a heresy. Hmmm. But unlike then, the heresies of neo-paganism lack the novelty and intellectual rigors of our forebears.