Anyway there were several things I enjoyed about these videos: The Bronx accent reminds me of childhood friends. Also I love the gratuitous insults tossed in the direction of academic stone wall "experts". Academic theories on stone walls are described as "infantile". Which is true.
The speaker spends a lot of time discussing a 1930's USGS estimate of 24,000 miles of stone walls, taking 15,000 men 247 years to build. The speaker points out that there were not enough people living outside the cities for this to be possible - by several orders of magnitude. He takes quite a while to discuss this.
Finally, this guy makes a very good point about landowners sub-dividing their land into multiple lots: they would have used (and often did use) simple and regular rectangular plots. Instead we see examples where the subdivisions are random irregular shapes:
The speaker adds a key bit of information: there are other walls inside these ones selected (in white) as property boundaries.
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budcat7! I've seen his work before!
To hear him call Thorson "ding dong" is a joy.
Me too.
It makes absolutely no sense to use 21 century reasoning to explain 18th/19th lifestyle and work ethic.
budcat7 can't seem to shake that "anyone but Indians" mind-set. I'd urge both him and Thorson to learn a little something about the Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast and elsewhere in the hemisphere creating Cultural Landscape just like other People did in other parts of the world...
I thought he proposed it took thousands of years to build all the walls, so then...Indians did it.
I can only listen to him for short periods of time - and I recall turning it off when he mentioned some sources that he considered reliable: the usual suspects that drag in Lost Civilizations, Giants and even UFOs. It seems like a sort of a home-made version of America Unearthed...
Take a look at his buddy's video: https://youtu.be/Ni7_BJUQU-c
Listen people! I do not say that the "Indians" didn't build the stone walls. An ancestor of the Native peoples did is what I say but not an ancestor that is recognized. I've said that these ancient peoples we don't know anything about, including not much by mainstream, aren't clearly identified. What their language was, what their pigment was, what their hair color was. There are many anomalous things to consider about the past and I'm sure it was far different than we can even imagine. People have a tendency to ignore what I say based on the confirmation bias whether it be mainstream or alternative. Watch more of my videos and you'll find out what I ACTUALLY say and not what other interpret my meanings to be.
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