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causticusIn the vid linked below, Lionel raises some rather interesting points on what would happen here on Earth if the general public were to be presented with undeniable evidence that sentient extraterrestrial beings do indeed exist. I'm not going comment on whether or not the existence of ETs/EBEs is indeed true; as with our current public knowledge it's impossible to confirm or deny the existence of this phenomenon, and thus taking a firm stance on either end means I'll be going out on quite a shaky limb. Having said that, I haven't seen anything approaching decisive evidence that the UFO phenomenon is caused by ETs.
Anyway, I found his 5 points to be quite interesting. These are:
To expand on point #4: The noxious "original sin" narrative that forms the core of all Abrahamic religions would immediately crumble to dust if we were to now know that there are other intelligent beings out there who are not yoked by these ideological rules. And this would effectively de-center and deflate the anthro-solipistic "humans are the center of the universe" narrative that these Abrahamic religions feed off of. Of course, the idea of planetary multiplicity would not at all threaten pagan religions. As an aside, it's now quite obvious why Abrahamic religions have been so hostile to acknowledging the existence of nature spirits, demigods, elemental beings, ect. that don't fit into a perfect good/evil, angel/demon binary. Acknowledging these entities is an admission of the fact that even here on Earth, human beings are not the only games in town when it comes to intelligence and sentience. It then becomes impossible to believe as literal-historical fact, a mythological narrative involving human personages from the not-too-distant past that are the center of a cosmos-wide drama involving the supposed creator god of said cosmos. In short, the entire core narrative of Abrahamism was build on a flimsy house of cards from the getgo; a true "believer" has to suspend all rational thinking and thus delude themselves into believing in the empirical actuality of a constellation of absurd starting premises. This form of intense mental gymnastics will always produce all sorts of nasty psychological side effects.
Finally, I'd like to throw in a counter-point trope to the ET existential threat. I've seen this line of thinking floating around on conspiracy theory web sites for quite some time:
Perpetuating a hoax this massive does indeed sound like an ultimate last resort. It would be the behavior of a cornered beast.
Anyway, I found his 5 points to be quite interesting. These are:
1. The petrodollar economy and petrocracy would be destroyed via propulsion systems making such obsolete.
2. The Pavlovian obeisance and fetish of secrecy among MIC, tech and governments along with their tendency to always err on the side of secrecy mandate a vow of silence to the death.
3. MIC/tech/government coveting secrets of antigravitic propulsion systems that would revolutionize military lethality, locomotion, transportation and commercial travel;
4. Religion and original sin. As Father Gabriel Funes, the Vatican's astronomer said in 2008, "[j]ust as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God. And some aliens could even be free from original sin."
5. The destruction of nationalism and petty geographic, secular and regional differences to be replaced with the sense of enjoying Earthling status.
To expand on point #4: The noxious "original sin" narrative that forms the core of all Abrahamic religions would immediately crumble to dust if we were to now know that there are other intelligent beings out there who are not yoked by these ideological rules. And this would effectively de-center and deflate the anthro-solipistic "humans are the center of the universe" narrative that these Abrahamic religions feed off of. Of course, the idea of planetary multiplicity would not at all threaten pagan religions. As an aside, it's now quite obvious why Abrahamic religions have been so hostile to acknowledging the existence of nature spirits, demigods, elemental beings, ect. that don't fit into a perfect good/evil, angel/demon binary. Acknowledging these entities is an admission of the fact that even here on Earth, human beings are not the only games in town when it comes to intelligence and sentience. It then becomes impossible to believe as literal-historical fact, a mythological narrative involving human personages from the not-too-distant past that are the center of a cosmos-wide drama involving the supposed creator god of said cosmos. In short, the entire core narrative of Abrahamism was build on a flimsy house of cards from the getgo; a true "believer" has to suspend all rational thinking and thus delude themselves into believing in the empirical actuality of a constellation of absurd starting premises. This form of intense mental gymnastics will always produce all sorts of nasty psychological side effects.
Finally, I'd like to throw in a counter-point trope to the ET existential threat. I've seen this line of thinking floating around on conspiracy theory web sites for quite some time:
The globalist agenda is poised to use an "off world invasion" as a last resort contingency if propaganda fails to get people to reject their national sovereignty in favor of a one world government. A perceived alien invasion would get people to unify under a global banner as a "unified, one world collective". It sounds cozy and pleasant on its surface, but it's deceitful and sinister at its core. 80 years ago, intelligent people thought that aliens were invading New Jersey because of a hoax radio broadcast. We haven't really changed all that much since then.
Perpetuating a hoax this massive does indeed sound like an ultimate last resort. It would be the behavior of a cornered beast.
