Some Junkie Cosmonaut said:
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If we're not alone, we have the right to know.
It's as simple as that.
It shouldn't be up to a select few who get to decide whether the rest of humanity learns something so profound or not.
Admittedly, this is where it always falls apart in my mind. I don't understand how something so profound would be controlled by so few.
How does that work? A species/civilization that is advanced so far beyond our comprehension that will change humanity forever is taking orders not to reveal itself from a handful of bureaucrats in the DoE or DoD? Also, what happens when those bureaucrats retire? This has been going on for at least 100 years, right?
"Hey Xenon, this is my replacement Bob. I'm retiring to the Poconos. Your secret is safe with him."
That was obviously in jest but the ability for governments, somehow working together for almost a century, to keep this a secret when these aliens/beings/civilizations are so far beyond us just doesn't pass the smell test to me. If it is so profound, why would they wait on the US government to do a "slow roll" of information to prepare the populace? If they were really here, it feels like it would have been self-evident at some point in this timeline. I have a hard time just putting faith in our government in the year 2023 given everything we've seen from them over the past several years and what we know they've done in the past.
Yeah, these kinds of macro questions are honestly at the heart of all my skepticism. I can't pretend to "disprove" every single video and story and I'm not even really interested in trying, but the whole scenario just doesn't begin to hold together for me at a large scale. And that's why I think many times skeptics are seen as dismissively "handwaving" stuff off instead of seriously giving it the time it deserves. Even though I can certainly see why enthusiasts want to dive into specific impressive videos and such, when I stand back and ask broad questions the whole thing just doesn't hold together to me.
Right on the face of it, which you already alluded to, one of a hundred questions I have is why do we even insist that it's up to the government to disclose this in the first place? How is it
their responsibility and not the aliens'?Either it's one of two things. The U.S. government, apparently along with several other governments, has the power to conceal these things against their will (which sure doesn't say much for the aliens), or else very clearly the aliens
don't want to be disclosed in which case the government is doing what they're told. Why do you guys insist on pissing the aliens off?
The bottom line is that when I walk outside here on a nice sunny day in a few minutes and go to work, and I ask myself "Do I have any reason whatsoever to think that over that hill, or maybe 100 miles that other way, there are literally beings from another dimension or another part of the galaxy flying around?" All of my senses and all of my experiences and all I've ever learned just combine to tell me there's absolutely no way, regardless of something I saw on the internet. But as I keep saying, I'm receptive to anything that might change my mind.
