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No, it's the super heroes and Disney figurines what will be considered deities - their sheer volume will make them a frequent archeological finding.


> > I wonder how many cheap plastic Happy Meal toys will someday thousands of years from now be dug up and deemed to have special religious significance to our culture.

> No, it's the super heroes and Disney figurines what will be considered deities

The use of “No” here suggests a dearth of experience with Happy Meal toys, because these aren't opposed ideas.


if history is any guide then the future archeologists looking at the content of our internet will conclude that we're living in matriarchate these days (with Pamela Anderson interpreted along the lines of "religious figures,[5] an expression of health and fertility, grandmother goddesses") like the today's scientists conclude that about past societies upon finding this Venus figurines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine

Or like for example another interpretation there produced by scientists who seem to have never seen that Kim Kardashian Instagram post :)

"It has been suggested that they may be a sign of an earlier prevalence of steatopygia, now associated principally to women of certain African or Andamanese ancestry. However the Venuses do not qualify as steatopygian, since they exhibit an angle of approximately 120 degrees between the back and the buttocks, while steatopygia is diagnosed by modern medical standards at an angle of about 90 degrees only.[21]"


Our Gods Wear Spandex [1] is actually a super interesting book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Our-Gods-Wear-Spandex-History/dp/1578...


Praise be Mickey.




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