Saw this on reddit. I still remain kind of skeptical but think all this is really interesting.
His comment that he has conversations where they’re all saying the public “can’t handle” whatever it is, is something I think about a lot.
With my cynacism i feel that we, the public, kind of are just cattle to the elites and super wealthy. Our purpose is to work and to buy stuff, which is the foundation to their wealth and power. Much better to keep us as dumb and ignorant as possible. Such a huge portion of the public is obsessed with celebrity gossip, sports, religious nonsense, etc.
A full disclosure that intelligent alien species exist and are here, would either be painful and debilitating to a large portion of people (fundamentalist religious people, the world over), or change other people to start thinking at a higher level other than just celebrity and sports shit, or how to get money to buy the next new gadget or token of status.
If people start thinking, we’ve been being lied to by those in power, what else is there? Why does Kim Kardashian deserve to be a billionaire, when millions of children die of starvation every year? Why does someone have to work 40hrs a week in a factory doing manual labor that could be easily automated by AI or robotics (because it’s cheaper for the human to do it), etc., etc.
My comment might be tangent from the UFO topic, but it’s what I think of why they don’t want to disclose, or at least a possibility.
Yeah honestly I think your idea here is much more probable. If the alien stuff is real, they’re going to want to be able to own it and profit from it, first and foremost. It makes some sense that if they still can’t figure it out or reverse engineer it (not unlikely right?), then continue to keep it secret until they have full control of it.
I keep thinking back to the removal of the eminent domain over non-human technology that was removed from the Schumer amendment. Why the hell remove it, or am i missing something? I feel like that should’ve gotten way more people taking this seriously. What are they trying to say, “we don’t have alien stuff now, but if we ever do get some in the future, we want to keep it!”. BS.
Also my cynical take on the public waking up from this is probably unlikely, at least short term, an if at all long term. Even if we got full disclosure, maybe a few weeks of headlines, water cooler conversations at the office, then back to normal. I think I just want something like this to wake the public up to things like wealth inequality and stuff but in actuality it probably wouldn’t.