SCAN 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Kensington Runestone, Arthur Conan Doyle, Weekly World News

• School: UBC
• Department: Scandinavian
• Course: SCAN 335
• Professor: G E O F F R E Y W I N T H R O P- Y O U N G,

Document Summary

Believed something fake to be true because similar to ones" schema. The protocols of the wise men of zion. Granted legitimacy to the church as a grand state holder. Forger too much and too long people believed it to be true. Brain too big to match with the set of teeth. To prove that the really first men is english. Invented rational thinking but still fall for fraud. Desire to establish contact with the other world, with the dead. Cater to desire to the dead one. Inability or lack of knowledge of how media work. Great forgery cater to the belief system in which they remain. Flexible enough to adapt in the course of time. Not all forgery being done with intent. Done with beliefs of historical truth and produce evidence to support this belief. The truth backs up the fake because the fake makes the truth to prove. All of the world but africa is cut off.