i like this thought process, and have often brought it up in academic settings (with various results). some people realize the cold rationality underlying it. others knejeerk instinctively into some kind of post-modern anti-intellectual turtled posturing...

it reminds me of a sarcastic commentary i wrote for good old greek civ 101. you know the one, with the homers and the herodotuses and the...

it's not formal writing (the submission format was over personal email), and i was but a child. don't be silly in the criticism. but it's still fun to think about all these years later.

the solstice alignment through stonehenge is almost certainly not a coincidence, though.

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/thoughts/trolls/greekciv101.html