On September 28th, 2021, while doing some research, I happened across a lengthy post on r/paleontology. It was an iceberg style meme, common for the time, exploring some of the stranger points of discussion in the history of paleontology. On the line between the fourth and fifth layers, far left, not yet midway through the depths of the post, a single phrase caught my attention. Spinal Catastrophism. $17.95, shipping, handling, and a standard business week later, I hit a brick wall of some of the densest intellectual work I’d ever come in contact with.
I took this as a challenge: I knew I needed to understand what this book was about, out of my own scholarly curiosity and pride as a stubborn psuedoacademic. Whether or not anyone else cared, I wanted to be able to say that I had conquered this bony beast of a book, and claimed whatever treasures lied within. I’m proud to say, I think I did. And now I want to share my findings with you. This video will break down, as full as I am capable, the themes, arguments, and logical flow of this Secret History, and bring us to the mindbreaking twist that awaits us at the story’s end.
At least, up through the first 19 chapters. This video only covers through the Thoracic Retrospect, the rest of the analysis will be in part 2.

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Music Used
Diego Gwinn
Nebular Focus Dan Henig
Tusk Act 2 Gwinn
Play Gravity Sound
Drifting @ 432 Hz Unicorn Heads
Frightmare Jimena Contreras
Stand Tall Lena Raine
Evening Fall Kevin MacLeod
Bottomsup Bay Fossil Fighters
Glacier Patrick Patrikios
Intelligensia Godmode
Lament of the Ancients Asher Fulero
Ancestry Lena Raine
Nine Lives Unicorn Heads
Hopeless Jimena Contreras
Encephalon Deliberation Kaedalus
My Train's A Coming Unicorn Heads
Space Coast Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Namaste Audionautix
Passing Time Kevin MacLeod

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