(08-16-2023, 08:50 PM)Schmoe Wrote:(08-16-2023, 08:18 PM)Ninurta Wrote:
I think they are all in it for Number One, whatever will make themselves the most money, and are entirely, or nearly so, uncoordinated. I think each "side" is just peddling what they think will sell, what will net them the most income. I mean, come on - 3 grand to go out into the middle of a desert and shoot your brain waves at ET? If that's not a money-maker, I dunno what is. No reason a body can't just get blitzed and shoot his brain waves at ET from his own rocking chair, at home, for free!
As far as leadership taking out the higher ups for being too destructive of humanity goes, ain't gonna happen. Look at it from a human's-eye perspective - if an ant hill is becoming bothersome, are you going to dig it up to ferret out the Queen and stomp on her, or are you just gonna heap some diazenon on the whole damned ant hill?
They've given no indication so far that they give a tinker's damn about humanity other than as test subjects in alien labs. They're not going to "save" us, they'll just let nature run it's natural course to observe our self-destruction while taking notes, or else hasten it and end the experiment by sacrificing all of the test subjects.
It's the scientific way.
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True, if they took out our leaders, the next corruptible bastard would just step into their place. There'd be little point.
So what do you think the government's angle in all this is? I can see Greer, Elizondo, etc. being in it for the money. What about the politicians and other government officials who've been involved? What's their end game? More power and control?
Indeed. The next Stalin is always waiting in the wings for his chance. There is no shortage of wannabe dictators. It has been said that "absolute power corrupts absolutely", But I wonder if the case in not opposite - Those least suited to wield power are those most desirous of it, and when given power, it just allows their innate corruption to flourish. In that case, the power is not corrupting them, it is merely offering an outlet for their in-born corruption to be exercised more fully.
I believe most, if not all, of the people who seek power are just seeking an outlet to let their little inner dictator run free. As such, the power is not corrupting them, they are corrupting the power. It's like electricity - it can be used for good, or it can be used for evil, but it must be USED to do either... so the "good" and the "evil" attributed to it should really be laid at the feet of the user, not the power. The power itself, alone and unused, is neither good nor evil. It's only when a human agent steps in to use it, to direct it, that it gathers it's character.
Government angles in all of this are probably as many as there are factions in the government. Some may genuinely be in the dark and have only a desire to turn a light on it. Others see a opportunity to manipulate the populace through the medium of the fear they can stoke up regarding it. So there are some who seek to use it to their own advantage, mostly psychologically, while others seek to empower their constituency by getting at the Truth and releasing it into the wild.
I know we tend to lump all politicians into the same pile as all being power-hungry, manipulative liars, but there are some who genuinely are in it for the good of their people. They are in the minority to be sure, but they do exist.
"Disclosure", however, I firmly believe to be a psyop, a distraction operation. The longer they keep folks on the hook waiting for "disclosure", the longer they can keep them distracted, looking in another direction while they pursue evil intentions where no one is currently looking. I believe there is nothing, really, for them to disclose. Whatever they may have, they don't understand enough about it to disclose anything at all of it, and so they never will. It's in their own best interests o keep folks on the hook, thinking they will, or are doing, "something" about it. if they disclose, and people realize there is nothing the governments CAN do about it because they don't know enough bout it, panic will ensue, and governments will topple overnight... and you just KNOW they aren't about to do that! It's not a panicked population they fear - they could not give less of a crap whether we are panicked or not - it's what that panicked population might to to THEM, rather than each other, that is what they most truly fear.
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