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What is the goal of this campain to re-introduce aliens into the public discourse? Interestingly, it seems that the "smart" people are now falling for it (washi

What is the goal of this campain to re-introduce aliens into the public discourse? Interestingly, it seems that the "smart" people are now falling for it (washington post, hn, certain subreddits and podcasts...).

gruez 5y ago
>What is the goal of this campain to re-introduce aliens into the public discourse To what end?
tyleo 5y ago
I doubt that. The interesting part is that there _is_ a goal even if we don't know what it is: * US Government is telling the truth - goal may be to figure out what these are. * US Government is lying - goal may be to mislead an adversary. Those are just two examples. I find UFOs interesting because its hard to understand the government's intention here and fun to speculate.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
  Assuming that "US Government" has a single coherent goal is an event worse error than assuming the same of e.g. Microsoft (1) Quite possibly: one faction in one branch of "US Government" is manoeuvring for power / money / status from another branch. Uncovering "truth" might be quite irrelevant to this goal; there's a lot of post-truth stuff happening there at present. https://ritholtz.com/2013/07/organizational-charts-of-amazon-apple-facebook-microsoft/ https://ritholtz.com/2013/07/organizational-charts-of-amazon...
staticassertion 5y ago
When did aliens leave the public discourse? Right now there's a bit of a flare up, because that's how modern media works - some story is done, gets clicks, everyone rides the SEO trend for a while until something else crops up. I don't think there's much more to it than that.