Solution Channel, ugh.

[GravelTeeth]

Well it was gratifying that in the latest episode (12-16), Marty Lagina echoed some of these thoughts. Starting at around the 03:25 mark:
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Narrator: "The earth surrounding and beneath the shaft began to cave in. This has caused the team to believe that more than 100 cubic yards of soil, along with the possible treasure, may have fallen into a so-called solution channel or naturally occurring cavern in the bedrock some 200 feet underground."

Marty: "It really looks like the culprit for these collapses is so far this solution channel. The treasure could easily have fallen to 200 feet plus, and we haven't really searched that area."

Billy: "Right."

Marty: "If you had a chest of gold and it broke open, it'd be in the last inch.
...
If this solution channel which we know is quite large can be swallowing a hundred yards of sand and gravel overnight or during the day, uh, who knows how bad this could get.
...
We're gonna have to wait for the material to settle. It'll probably become more stable and we can come back close, and I wanna come back close. We have a renewed determination to get down, into that solution cavity. At least I do."
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Also, coincidentally, one of the Adam and Dr. Drew podcast episodes from last week touched on the "cooking" or scripting of reality TV.

https://www.podcastone.com/episode/...d-of-a-Man-with-Jax-Taylor-Adam--Dr-Drew-1988

approximately at the 05:41 - 07:47 timestamp

--GT

 

[GravelTeeth]

So, episode 12-25, last of the season, had the narrator describing one hundred TONS of material falling into the solution channel from the caissoned borehole. That's just lovely. As if the stuff they are looking for was not already difficult enough.

--GT

 

[SSR]

Although deception might play a part, the ultimate purpose of the show is entertainment. Specifically, "reality entertainment." The ingredients for this are drama, conflict, and intrigue. The activities on the show are designed around these ingredients against a backdrop of looking for buried treasure. The activities are not designed to actually find or recover treasure, and the show itself is the evidence of all this. If they actually made a serious attempt at finding buried treasure, it would not last all that long and would probably make for a boring show that could not sell 30 second ads. It is what it obviously is.

The deceiver is the rationalizer in you. They are feeding it with information of any sort, knowing that it will find rationales that support enticing suggestions you might want to believe in. How many times the self fulfilling prophecies play out drives their viewership.

Is it dishonest? Not as much as we are dishonest with ourselves when we forego critical thinking and go right into rationalizing possible/probable fictions. That can be exploited, and it is. There is little money in offering a critical thinking suggestion to the masses. Thus we learn that Romans used wood and nails too. One stone is a monument, two are a sacred alignment, three a construct mapping to the stars, four a Templar castle and so on and so on.

Is it a crime to be gullible?

 

[SSR]

Well it was gratifying that in the latest episode (12-16), Marty Lagina echoed some of these thoughts. Starting at around the 03:25 mark:
----
Narrator: "The earth surrounding and beneath the shaft began to cave in. This has caused the team to believe that more than 100 cubic yards of soil, along with the possible treasure, may have fallen into a so-called solution channel or naturally occurring cavern in the bedrock some 200 feet underground."

Marty: "It really looks like the culprit for these collapses is so far this solution channel. The treasure could easily have fallen to 200 feet plus, and we haven't really searched that area."

Billy: "Right."

Marty: "If you had a chest of gold and it broke open, it'd be in the last inch.
...
If this solution channel which we know is quite large can be swallowing a hundred yards of sand and gravel overnight or during the day, uh, who knows how bad this could get.
...
We're gonna have to wait for the material to settle. It'll probably become more stable and we can come back close, and I wanna come back close. We have a renewed determination to get down, into that solution cavity. At least I do."
----

Also, coincidentally, one of the Adam and Dr. Drew podcast episodes from last week touched on the "cooking" or scripting of reality TV.

https://www.podcastone.com/episode/...d-of-a-Man-with-Jax-Taylor-Adam--Dr-Drew-1988

approximately at the 05:41 - 07:47 timestamp

--GT

If there is always a degree of truth in legend, as some insist, then their vault has sunk into the proverbial impenetrable abyss and they are stuck waiting for the antichrist to show up and be defeated before they can access the contents of the vault. Rick should know by know that the mysterious energies will thwart his retrieval efforts.