The Memory Hole

GIVEN the ownership and modus operandi of popular search engines like Yahoo and Google, it is hardly surprising that it is becoming increasingly more difficult to locate certain historical and cultural material in the face of so much contemporary garbage. Searching for characters from ancient mythology, for example, and this is best illustrated via Google Images, means having to trawl through several pages of Marvel- and Manga-related junk. However, the enormous scale on which this supplantation has taken place indicates that a systematic attempt is being made to completely obfuscate our heritage, our traditions and our beliefs. No wonder the average person thinks that Loki is a film character, that "Nietzscheans" are a race of aliens from a trashy science-fiction series and that dwarves begin and end with Hollywood.