Clay Tablets Or Ancient Texts Are Not Infallible Instruction Manuals. They Are Political Artifacts, Mythic Performances, Psychological Projections, And Attempts To Control Meaning. To Treat Them As Literal Cosmic Truth Is Stupid.

 

Ancient texts have been treated for centuries as if they were celestial operating systems — flawless, timeless, unquestionable. But clay tablets are not divine USB drives. They are not cosmic instruction manuals.

They are human artefacts, or at best human interpretations of non-human encounters, and the insistence that they must be obeyed literally is, frankly, stupid.

Yes, I said it. Stupid. Because at some point, the reverence becomes an insult to intelligence.

Clay tablets are political artefacts. Every king, priest, scribe, and storyteller had an agenda. They wrote to justify power, sanctify violence, elevate their tribe, and erase their enemies. A tablet praising a ruler’s “divine victory” is no different from a modern government press release. It is propaganda baked in mud. To treat propaganda as cosmic truth is stupid.

Clay tablets are mythic performances. Myth is not a camera. Myth is theatre. Myth is a civilisation trying to explain chaos, justify hierarchy, and make sense of suffering. The Anunnaki quarrels, betrayals, jealousies, and cosmic tantrums are not divine revelations — they are mythic dramatizations of human psychology projected onto the sky. To confuse mythic theatre with literal cosmic history is stupid.

Clay tablets are psychological projections. Ancient people projected their fears, desires, traumas, and political anxieties onto gods. If the gods look dysfunctional, it is because the people were dysfunctional. If the gods command genocide, it is because the people wanted to justify genocide. Moses wiping out the Midianites is not divine morality — it is tribal politics dressed in holy language. To treat tribal violence as eternal moral law is stupid.

Clay tablets are attempts to control meaning. Every civilisation tries to control the narrative. Today, America writes one version of history; Iran writes another. Russia writes one version; Ukraine writes another. If future archaeologists found only one side, they would misunderstand everything. Ancient texts are exactly like that: one-sided archives of conflict, fossilised perspectives pretending to be universal truth. To treat one perspective as the entire cosmos is stupid.

And here is the real insult: People today, with access to science, psychology, archaeology, comparative mythology, and geopolitical understanding, still insist that these ancient documents must be obeyed literally. They still insist that mythic performances must dictate modern ethics. They still insist that political propaganda must define spiritual truth. They still insist that psychological projections must govern human behaviour.

That insistence is not just naïve — it is stupid. Stupid because it ignores context. Stupid because it ignores bias. Stupid because it ignores human nature. Stupid because it insults the intelligence of anyone living in the 21st century.

Ancient texts deserve study, respect, and analysis. They do not deserve blind obedience.

They are evidence, not proof. They are perspective, not cosmic law. They are myth, not manual.

To treat them as literal cosmic truth is — and I repeat it without apology — stupid.