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This 8 page paper discusses James Churchward’s claims that the “lost continent of Mu” once existed in the mid-Pacific, and sank when gas filled chambers beneath it collapsed. The paper argues that Churchward’s theory is not supported by scientific evidence, but notes that people still seem to enjoy debating it. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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too many bills, too little income, too much stress and frustrated ambitions. Perhaps thats why lost continents in particular seem so appealing: Atlantis has sparked the human imagination for centuries,
without any evidence that it ever existed. This paper considers another lost continent: the land of Mu, supposedly located in the Pacific. Its proponent is a man named James Churchward,
and this paper considers his theories and whether or not there is evidence to back them up. Discussion The short answer is no. Mu, however much Churchward himself may have
believed in it, is a fantasy. In a very funny essay entitled "Pulp History," Carlo Rotella explores the phenomenon of invented history, often written by academics with solid credentials who
take a walk outside the "walls" of academia to produce elaborate fantasies. He notes that these fanciful accounts, which he calls "pulp history" are to history as it is usually
taught as "pulp fiction is to canonical literature" (Rotella, 2007, p. 11). They are wilder than ordinary history, crammed full of incredible events, and their authors are less concerned about
truth than they are with adventure (Rotella, 2007). In fact, writers of pulp history may well consider academic credentials to be "signs of intellectual timidity or even of complicity in
some elite plot against regular folks" (Rotella, 2007, p. 11). Pulp history retains its hold over readers because it appeals to that part of the human imagination that deals in
"what if": what if the government really does have black helicopters; what if there really are aliens in Area 51; what if Atlantis and Mu really existed? These wild-eyed
theories also appeal because they are simple: they provide "[S]weeping single-factor explanations" for complex events, reducing history to "a series of alien visitations, or paranormal experiments, or now-obscure catastrophes" (Rotella,
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