Aliens and Natives

I’m SO glad the Mayans and Aztecs had all those extraterrestrial aliens to help them with their pyramids and buildings and the Nazca Lines and the astronomical calculations. God knows those benighted savages couldn’t possibly have done it on their own…Even the fucking Egyptians needed help.

Stonehenge, though? Those guys were SMART, I guess. I mean, why else would the dramatic television recreation of the construction and meaning of Stonehenge be filled with reenactments of the Celtic ancestors working so damn hard to drag and raise stones according to their astronomical labors, and the ones about the structures built in the Americas always include statements like, “no one knows how the Mayans were able to calculate the movements of stars so far in advance, although experts are still working on possible theories. One theory suggests that they had help…”

I’d lay odds that when it comes down to it, the aliens are pretty much white guys in the minds of these filmmakers. Maybe they even have hardhats, laptops, and Starbucks’ cups in their beneficent hands, or they’re tapping away on their Blackberries to the mothership while the dusky chumps in front of them cower in wonder and invent Quetzalcoatl to explain it all.

I’m exaggerating, but I detect a touch of racism here.