They take an ancient story and use it to pound home a message about the flavor-of-the-month issue of today. If I wanted a lecture on Global Warming, I would spend time more time with my family.
I’ve watched a bunch of documentaries over the years about Easter Island. The one we watched last night had the libs spinning like crazy to make sure we knew that the fluffy bunny natives were not to blame but it was the rats and the eating of the sea birds and maybe clearing some of the trees for agriculture but that since there were other places that had rats and farmers it must have been something else. Oh, and no cannibalism. Those stones tools that they found in people’s skulls? Just tools, not weapons. The native spokesperson seemed confused by that last bit but did at the end say that the moving of the Moi was one of the greatest accomplishments of the human race which seemed a bit much.