I debated writing on this subject, mainly because my current thoughts have less to do with the theological implications and more to do with the cultural and political ones. If you’re new here, I tend to write on theological, philosophical, and ethical issues. Political drama tends to be ancillary to the main point of my content, but I suspect that this issue is going to have major impacts on those topics in the near future, and so I decided to engage with it on a level on which I have yet to see others engage.
Awkward Conversations
We’ve all been there. You’re at a normal family function. Maybe it’s an event for your kid’s school, something with your church, or a family reunion, when suddenly, a casual conversation takes a turn towards the conspiratorial.
It rarely enters the conversation head-on. It’s typically more like an ambush.
You walk up to the cooler to grab a beer or soda. Another man walks up next to you. You're already in the cooler, so you offer to grab him a beverage. He appreciatively tells you his beverage of choice, and you begin talking.
“So, you’re into WWII movies?”
Ah, a fellow WWII junkie, you think to yourself. This is gonna be great.
“Yeah, I really enjoy them. Have you ever seen Band of Brothers?”
Your new “friend” raises his eyes, smiles, and says, “Have I seen Band of Brothers? Yeah, most of my friends have never seen it! I love it. Great series.”
You don’t realize it yet, but your conversation is about to teach you the practical consequences of living a nominalist philosophy.
You begin to tell him about your favorite episode of the HBO series, but he cuts you off, apologetically, of course, and proceeds to hijack the conversation.
“Don’t mean to interrupt, it’s just a crazy documentary, isn’t it?”
Documentary? It’s an HBO miniseries. What’s he talking about? As your mind races, you realize your body is entering “fight or flight” mode. It knows something you don’t.
“I always believed that the Holocaust was a closed case. But man, the evidence in that series was crazy! And the way they hijacked the HBO title was brilliant: ‘Band of Brothers: How Five Jewish Brothers Changed Our Views of History.’ How did they get away with the copyright?”
You’re not in Kansas anymore. You realize that this man has mistaken you for a fellow Holocaust denier. Your mind begins to seek a socially acceptable escape.
But before you’re able to implement your escape plan, he asks you another question, “So, what do you think of aliens? You think they exist?”
UFO Disclosure & Government Trust
For the record, there is no Holocaust denier mini-series put out by the same name as the WWII epic, Band of Brothers. But 30 years ago, while this hypothetical situation might have happened, it would have been a significant social risk for the man engaging with it. Additionally, the man who believed that the Holocaust didn’t happen would not have believed his denialist perspective might one day rival the mainstream narrative.
But the hypothetical man demonstrates how our government impacts the way we view what is considered “normal.” If we had changed the name of the movie from the hypothetical Band of Brothers title to a very much real movie title about aliens, called The Age of Disclosure, and shifted the topic from Holocaust denial to the existence of aliens, the conversation would now be considered acceptable and normative. That is because more and more government officials are talking about the UFO or UAP phenomenon.
This includes Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who appeared in the film and discussed the phenomenon of extraterrestrial evidence. The film came out last November. You can watch the trailer below, but clearly, the narrative has changed regarding the social acceptability of aliens.
The government has now “disclosed” footage and photos of aerial phenomena that, frankly, are nothing substantially different from what the internet has been sharing for the last 30 years. This appears to be something that the government is doing either to build trust with or to distract the American people. In either case, I suspect trust in the government will go down.
This is because the release of documents has a more important implicit narrative: the crazies were not actually crazy; the ones who said, “If the government had something like this, someone would say something about it,” turned out to be the crazy ones. That’s because people did say something, and the government destroyed their lives and reputations. A factor that those overly trusting of the morality of our own government fail to consider. The people who said no one can keep a secret in the government, according to that same government, were the ones duped.
To be clear, I’m not saying the evidence proves that aliens exist, but that the narrative is implying more skepticism of the government from both parties, not less. The implicit meaning of that narrative is that the crazy people were right, and the good ole boy citizen who said that the government couldn’t conspire if it wanted to because people would snitch on the projects, was duped.
This means you have a very weird profile of the types of voters you will have in the country. On the issue of the moon landing and the existence of aliens, you now have two groups of people who are supposedly vindicated by the same government on subjects that they, historically speaking, tended to disagree about.
The first group says that the moon landing was a fake, but then they would conclude that aliens did exist and the government was covering it up. Just like the government covered up the fake moon landing, the government was using its powers of deception to prevent people from knowing that aliens were real.
The second group says we have definitive proof that we went to the moon, but that we don’t have definitive proof that we have made contact with aliens. They, too, would say things like, “Well, if the government really was hiding aliens, they wouldn’t be able to keep it a secret.” They would then deploy the same logic to the moon landing: “Well, I think we went to the moon because there is no way the government could cover up something like that.”
Clearly, the disclosure is going to leave both of these parties scratching their head. Which is it? Is the government too incompetent to conspire against its own people and the world, or is it far more capable of deception and conspiring than the average American would care to admit?
We have gone from a time when you were considered an insane person for believing in aliens to our own government essentially admitting that these individuals were not crazy. People lost their jobs and careers. For example, fighter pilots who saw these things were disciplined and considered unfit for flight. Many other examples could be cited.
In fact, a few years ago, I was in a book club, and the topic of aliens came up. One of our members, brilliant guy. Solid career, wife, kids, and great guy, said he was convinced that he and his mom had an encounter with a UFO. He then talked about how he had been investigating and reading about the evidence for the existence of aliens for years. I was shocked.
A similar pattern of government disruption of citizen trust happened during COVID, when companies and governments were violating the ethical conclusions of the Nuremberg Trials.
These were the ethical codes for biological experimentation and medicines that Dr. Alexander submitted to the United States Counsel for War Crimes. According to the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s website,
On April 17, 1947, Dr. Alexander submitted a memorandum to the United States Counsel for War Crimes. The memo outlined six points that defined legitimate medical research. The trial's verdict of August 19 reiterated almost all of these points in a section entitled "Permissible Medical Experiments." It also revised the original six points into ten, and these ten points became known as the "Nuremberg Code."
One does not need to read far into the ten points of the Nuremberg Code to know that the solutions proposed by governments around the world, especially as it related to experimental vaccines, violated these codes. This too was affirmed by the fact that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth just announced that the government admitted that it mistreated military personnel and they are offering these former military members the ability to return to duty with back pay and all benefits reinstated.
Many people will complain about the rampant conspiratorial thinking happening today, but the “intellectuals” who deny this stuff always fail to understand that the only thing that will prevent more conspiratorial thinking is morally motivated people governed by a morally motivated government. Between COVID, the Epstein Files, and now alien evidence dumps, it’s clear that our government has a long way to go before it regains the trust of the people, and we need it to be trustworthy in order for the citizenry to remain united and sane.
Sure, they have released the “evidence” for aliens. I don’t find it convincing, but one has to give credit to the fact that releasing is part of the “healing process.” The same goes for the Department of War announcement about COVID abuses and vaccine coercion.
But given their track record and the fact that our political situation changes every four years, it’s more likely that the government has more important conspiracies to hide than aliens. Like, maybe the fact that AI + Robotics is creating the potential for a police state about which Stalin and Lenin could not even dream. This means the government is getting more powerful, not less. Robotic military units will completely change the politics of war and the way the government feels about the citizenry. More on this next week.
If the government wants to build trust, it should respond to the journalists and citizens who are doing their job for them. For example, while the aliens thing is great for Steven Spielberg’s new movie coming out this summer, Disclosure Day, it’s not going to do much for the American people. Instead, I would be far more interested in how America intends to bring justice to the taxpayers who have had billions of dollars stolen from them by immigration fraudsters, or how America intends to compete with China on AI and Robotics, while ensuring that American freedom is maintained.
In short, the government will not be able to build trust by making Instagram reels and X posts about aliens and other abuses of its power. They are going to have to take action against individuals who break the law, incite violence, and commit fraud, especially those entrusted with the power and authority of the greatest nation on earth.
— DR