re: Olde World Shanghai 1940s [color Remastered]-w/ Olde Roman Architecture / Elect Trams

Tbh, I don’t think the current historical narratives about pre-Columbian America are correct. There are simply too many depictions of Western Hemisphere foods (particularly corn and turkeys) in the ancient classical and pre-classical world for that narrative to hold up. Once you start looking, it’s hard to miss just how many corn plants are depicted in ancient art of Egypt, Sumer, Assyria, and even Rome.

Our current narrative has no explanation for the massive ancient copper mines in the Great Lakes region. Especially when there are no known pre-columbian bronze age civilizations in the Americas outside of the Inca. That copper had to have been mined by someone and it had to go somewhere.

With that said, using the mud flood ideology to question the historical narrative can be a fun exercise. While most of the historical narrative really does hold up to this kind of scrutiny, taking that level of scrutiny to so many things ends up shining a light on the items that actually don’t belong. There are little details of history that simply do not jive with the archaeological record. So much of the Historical narrative seems to be more conjecture than evidence based. So many anomalous structures, artifacts, and artwork shows that there are clearly gaps which our current narrative fails to explain.

We need to examine those gaps to find the truth rather than shun all of those asking questions as silly conspiracy theorists. Some questions are silly, and most questions have rational answers. But, in asking the “silly” questions, one occasionally stumbles upon ones where there are no easy answers.

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I still can't figure out what sort of fantastical skills and technology he believes it would have taken to build late 19th to early 20th century buildings, in the late 19th to early 20th century,

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I think he honestly thinks that style is literal Roman and it was a thousand years old by the time it was filmed.

He clearly doesn't understand that is literally the style of the late imperial era.

He rarely ever answers what he’s getting at in these threads.

I’ll ask you again:

What are you getting at SPECIFICALLY

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He clearly doesn't understand that is literally the style of the late imperial era.

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Where did you find, "late imperial era"? Is that an official "historical accurate" label? Or are you taking a stab at it?

"History" or "Narrative" describes this kind of architecture as "Romanesque". There is NO evidence that it is indeed "Roman". That's one more historical narrative of building that we've all been taught to accept.

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18 buildings were credited to the same builder...IN 18 YEARS.

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Do you think the builder was doing the building himself?

To quote Louis CK, it is amazing what you can accomplish when you literally do not give a frick about the cost in human lives.

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One naturally ponders as to how quickly one could reasonably have built some of these structures. This is due to how protracted large building projects have become today due to regulations which absolutely strangle modern infrastructure construction. They see these huge cities of ornate buildings and imagine that it must have taken centuries to build them, when it likely only took a few decade. The last 30 years of living in America have been unusually static with regards to construction, and so they assume that is the norm (as it’s all they’ve ever known).

The reality is that post war architecture exists because it’s cheaper, because the world’s population experienced an unprecedented boom, because so much of the old world’s infrastructure was destroyed by war, and because many of the architects and city planners were a-hole communist utopians.

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This is actually a topic that I would find at least as interesting as the fantastical musings of Liberator - which I do indeed find interesting.

Here are some representative styles of architecture that make NO sense in the timelime OR narrative:

Japan(!):



South Africa:



Singapore



Kenya

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And on and on.

Shanghai is hardly the exception.

If you're interested in the question as well as other building around the world that appear to use the "same blueprints".

Similar style buildings are all over the world. Were they built by our civilization?