Alex Miranda

“Over the last century, a new power narrative has emerged that warps archaeological data into a specific shape the way a magnet affects iron filings. It is the unspoken belief that humanity is on a journey from worse to better, from primitive to complex, uncivilised to civilised. Our civilisation of perpetual war, total surveillance, obesity, runaway mental illness, overmedication, environmental degradation, widespread unemployment and scientific materialism has nothing to learn from the past because it is better. Enjoy that smartphone made by suicidal Taiwanese slave labour. Continue shopping.”
― Gordon White, Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits

“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from the previous regime still stands.”
― Gordon White, Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits

“When Michael Cremo visited Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum, the head of the archaeology collection, Dr Larisa Churilova, showed him artefacts that indicated an early Stone Age belief in reincarnation. Her reason for not publishing her findings was that the editors of journals are uncomfortable with cultural interpretations. They just want to print things like ‘a stone flake two centimetres long was found at a depth of one metre in the excavation.”
― Gordon White, Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits

“You are certainly free to join whatever nineteenth-century swingers club masquerading as a magical order you like, but do it on your own time.”
― Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality