UFOs, Information Overload
I've been watching some online videos yesterday and today. One is Hacking Democracy, an HBO documentary about the insecurity of electronic voting. (In short, they're very insecure). Another is 'Arithmetic, Population and Energy,' a look at carrying capacity and growth and the ecological problems we're facing. The other is 'America: From Freedom To Fascism,' made by Aaron Russo, producer of, among other projects, the Eddie Murphy/Dan Aykroyd movie 'Trading Places'. I read about this last one in the Onion, and they were pretty critical, but I was curious, and when I learned that it was available for free to view online, I decided, 'why not?'
I'm not yet through with it, because I got distracted seeing G. Edward Griffin speaking. He's the author of a book I found a few years ago 'World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17,' which I think I'll write about sometime later. In any event, I decided to look up info on him, and found his website, Freedom Force International. Some interesting stuff there, including info about the Federal Reserve (related to topics covered in America: From Freedom to Fascism), some 9/11 truth stuff about evidence for planned demolitions, some Illuminati stuff, some criticism of the left and the right as all collectivist, rather than individualist, and then this page, featuring a video of a press conference with dozens of people talking about UFO and extraterrestrial life and high technology, and the need not to militarize space. Many of these folks are current or former high level aviation, military or other governmental officials who have pledged to present their testimonies to Congress under oath if given the opportunity. The opening remarks were given by a former medical doctor, who implored the audience to be skeptical, but not irrationally so, and to be willing to accept information that seems credible and believable.
I'm not sure what to make of it all. There's more testimony and then audience Q & A left to view, and it all sounds right. That is, if anything like this were ever to be legit, this seems like the way it would be done. I want to disbelieve it in many ways, but in other ways, I want to be open to it. They mention other advanced alien civilizations, and as a primitivist, that's troubling because it naturalizes high technology and civilization. Ran in his essay, The Critique of Civilization Changes Everything, discusses "intelligent life' in space, and how that's a euphemism for civilized life because it idiosyncratically defines intelligence as the application of knowledge toward civilized ends (towards distance and control I would say), and denies the intelligence of the rest of the community of life on the planet that fails to civilize. He writes:
What we're really looking for in space is other stupid life, other life that has gone mad the same way we have, and we haven't found it because our madness is a violently unsustainable deviation from reality, and if creatures on other planets have done it, they burned out and crashed in a galactic microsecond the same way we're doing, and their sitcoms and commercials and nationalist talk radio blew by us for only 50 years when we were lounging in grass huts eating mangoes, or will blow by us in the future when we're doing so again.
Videos like the one Griffin links to naturalize civilization, and suggest that it's really the path we were always meant for.
That's what I thought when I started writing this, but maybe not. Maybe these extraterrestrials are really stupid in the same way as this culture, and sure, maybe this is 100% true and legit, but so what? With billions and trillions of stars and planets in the universe, who's to say that other "intelligent," that is, stupid life has really got it right? They could be the aberrations too, just ones who happened to make it out to this planet from across galaxies.
In any event, this may not even be true. Griffin himself suggests that it could be the work of agent provocateurs providing disinfo, though the likelihood of all of these people doing so is probably low.
The world is a crazy, exciting place with all sorts of truths. I'm going to keep trying to cultivate an openness to it all. Wish me luck!
I'm not yet through with it, because I got distracted seeing G. Edward Griffin speaking. He's the author of a book I found a few years ago 'World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17,' which I think I'll write about sometime later. In any event, I decided to look up info on him, and found his website, Freedom Force International. Some interesting stuff there, including info about the Federal Reserve (related to topics covered in America: From Freedom to Fascism), some 9/11 truth stuff about evidence for planned demolitions, some Illuminati stuff, some criticism of the left and the right as all collectivist, rather than individualist, and then this page, featuring a video of a press conference with dozens of people talking about UFO and extraterrestrial life and high technology, and the need not to militarize space. Many of these folks are current or former high level aviation, military or other governmental officials who have pledged to present their testimonies to Congress under oath if given the opportunity. The opening remarks were given by a former medical doctor, who implored the audience to be skeptical, but not irrationally so, and to be willing to accept information that seems credible and believable.
I'm not sure what to make of it all. There's more testimony and then audience Q & A left to view, and it all sounds right. That is, if anything like this were ever to be legit, this seems like the way it would be done. I want to disbelieve it in many ways, but in other ways, I want to be open to it. They mention other advanced alien civilizations, and as a primitivist, that's troubling because it naturalizes high technology and civilization. Ran in his essay, The Critique of Civilization Changes Everything, discusses "intelligent life' in space, and how that's a euphemism for civilized life because it idiosyncratically defines intelligence as the application of knowledge toward civilized ends (towards distance and control I would say), and denies the intelligence of the rest of the community of life on the planet that fails to civilize. He writes:
What we're really looking for in space is other stupid life, other life that has gone mad the same way we have, and we haven't found it because our madness is a violently unsustainable deviation from reality, and if creatures on other planets have done it, they burned out and crashed in a galactic microsecond the same way we're doing, and their sitcoms and commercials and nationalist talk radio blew by us for only 50 years when we were lounging in grass huts eating mangoes, or will blow by us in the future when we're doing so again.
Videos like the one Griffin links to naturalize civilization, and suggest that it's really the path we were always meant for.
That's what I thought when I started writing this, but maybe not. Maybe these extraterrestrials are really stupid in the same way as this culture, and sure, maybe this is 100% true and legit, but so what? With billions and trillions of stars and planets in the universe, who's to say that other "intelligent," that is, stupid life has really got it right? They could be the aberrations too, just ones who happened to make it out to this planet from across galaxies.
In any event, this may not even be true. Griffin himself suggests that it could be the work of agent provocateurs providing disinfo, though the likelihood of all of these people doing so is probably low.
The world is a crazy, exciting place with all sorts of truths. I'm going to keep trying to cultivate an openness to it all. Wish me luck!
posted by Archangel at 9:29 PM
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