This video was shot in 2014 at a very nice World's Fair exhibit that ran at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Part of the exhibit included the use of computers and green screens to transform old photographs of the 1893 Columbian Exposition into "moving images" (there is no real film of the World's Fair, as the technology was in its infancy).
Somewhere around 2018, most comments on this light-hearted video were taken over by a very specific set of conspiracy devotees who are all very confident that the buildings of the "White City" existed for centuries before the World's Fair, built by an ancient civilization that has since been wiped from the historical record by the deep state and such. This is admittedly hard to disprove! On one hand, Chicago was an industrial hub with a population over 1 million in 1890, and one would presume somebody would have noticed (and photographed, drawn, written about) ancient classical architecture already sitting there in Jackson Park before the 1893 Fair. But this can be ignored. We can also ignore the various published blueprints and construction photos of the buildings, most of which were bare-bones exhibit spaces with exteriors quickly built from a material called staff, a cheap moldable plaster that could be made to look like marble (the same stuff had been used at the earlier Worlds Fairs in Paris). This MIGHT have explained why so many of the structures later burned down, and could have also explained why the Palace of Fine Arts, which was built to be a permanent museum of artifacts from the Fair, did NOT burn down, and is still in use today as the Museum of Science and Industry. We could even consider how Chicago built another big lot of temporary buildings for the 1933-34 Worlds Fair, but that they looked modern rather than "ancient," so it's not suspicious. But I reckon these explanations aren't very helpful either.
Millions of people visited the Columbian Exposition, and there are lasting artifacts galore: books published at the time, diary accounts, photos, original tickets to the event, endless newspaper accounts from mainstream and smalltime journalists from every corner of the political and social spectrum. These things, too, don't prove much. For we are all part of the Great Delusion.
"Conspiracy theories have attributes that set them apart from other types of causal explanation. Albeit to varying degrees, they are speculative in that they posit actions that are hidden from public
scrutiny, complex in that they postulate the coordination of multiple actors, and resistant to falsification in that they postulate that conspirators use stealth and disinformation to cover up their actions-implying that people who try to debunk conspiracy theories may, themselves,
be part of the conspiracy." --Study on The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories, University of Kent (ironically, a study easy to dismiss, since all institutions of higher learning are "part of it")
--signed, a Blind Sheep
More on Staff as a building material: enacademic.com...
Plans & Diagrams of Fair Buildings, 1893
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Photo of the Fair's Administration Building under construction
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Construction of the famous Ferris Wheel (just in case people think that was fake too):
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