The Descendants

Today I'll be presenting a paper at a conference on the Descendants. This group of people have the same relationship to Atlantis that Jews have to New York, except that theirs was a deliberate diaspora.

Over the years, they became responsible for a lot of things. When I've said it at the conference, I'll come back and say it here. But if you go back to the founding of modern Atlantis, you'll see that almost all of the modern founders were Descendants.

Perhaps the most educational thing the Descendants could have done, whether or not they wanted to do it, was to fade into the comforting shadows of history. It was only that which made them less obvious targets for everyone else.

As I said, it's a lot like being a Jew in New York...