Today, the whole world seems to be playing UAP limbo, where
with every new revelation of crashed UAPs, reverse engineered craft, off-world
objects, SAPs hiding from Congressional oversight, leaked UAP videos and other wild
and unsubstantiated claims streaming out of every allegedly hyper-top-secret orifice
- the evidence bar is lowered incrementally.
Except this time, not only is the traditional UAP community
of believers, skeptics, debunkers, and snake oil peddlers lining up to dance
their way under the bar; now we also have impressionable journalists, scientists,
Congress, NASA, and DOD personnel also lining up to play.
Well look there – its Kirsten Gillibrand and Marco Rubio doing
the limbo before heading to the back of the line for another round! The bar
drops further. Whoa!! George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell just cleared the bar while
releasing another leaked video. Who’s up next? Why it’s none other than Avi
Loeb, sporting a recent tan from life on the high seas, mining the sea floor
for objects of extraterrestrial origin. OMG! Is that Ross Coulthart asking to
drop the bar even lower? Hey, check it out! I see the head of NASA back there
and behind him a bunch of other Congress people, maybe even from the Gang of Eight.
Wait, is that David Grusch I see, fresh off his recent visit to a UAP
convention? Can you believe how whistleblowers always seem to be the best at
slithering under the bar! Oh, I spoke too soon! The head scientist for the UAP
task force, Dr. Travis Taylor, got even lower - all while being interviewed for
an Ancient Aliens episode and holding a mutilated calf from Skinwalker ranch.
What madness! Why is this UAP charade being played out in
the public domain, with not even enough real evidence to get a passing grade on
a high school science project? Indeed, there is something amiss here, something
that smells of a purposeful public relations campaign, ginning up the UAP noise-sphere
and spawning a bazillion #ufotwitter flame wars and speculation that just boils
down to a regurgitation fest of unsubstantiated, but portrayed-as-fact claims.
The news media has joined the limbo line, sending their “top”
journalists under the bar, most of whom cannot bring themselves to ask even the
most basic hard questions. Instead, they repeat the hearsay, the confirmations
of “hey, I know that guy, and you gotta believe him if he says it’s true” supporting
bobbleheads, some pseudonymous.
At some point the game will have to stop and the bar raised,
but will that translate into our understanding why the game was played to begin
with and why the players so eagerly and so effortlessly participated, enjoying the
music and exotic drinks, answers and truth be damned?
Welcome to the modern world, where the spectacle has become
more important than the truth. We have crossed over into a realm where make-believe
is sold as reality, for the sake of someone’s agenda (perhaps one which originated
in the halls of an Intel agency). That is our new normal. While real wars and
violence play out in far-away lands to untold human suffering, our first world
plays out its wars in the information sphere via perception management, manufactured
narratives and where the most outrageous claims can be bantered about with no
resistance, like a giant beach ball in the crowded stands of a football game
where the crowd doesn’t know or care why they are keeping that ball in the air.
Be deathly afraid of Artificial Intelligence (AI) the tech
pundits say in unison as ChatGPT and other AIs increasingly become an integral
part of the modern information landscape. Meanwhile, manufactured reality is embraced
by a willing audience of those who have traded critical thinking for a feel-good
game of limbo, while its dangerous implications are ignored. I for one, am far
more terrified of the latter.
