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What's even scarier to me is the obvious issue of the human blindspot: We struggle with the unknown. We desperately want to paint it with what's in our past. E
by themodelplumber 5y ago
What's even scarier to me is the obvious issue of the human blindspot: We struggle with the unknown. We desperately want to paint it with what's in our past.
Everybody wants to predict what it is, everybody wants to guess. Which is the same as forcing a "known" property onto the events. But it also forces a "self" onto the events, i.e. a convergent subjective lens.
Very few can say, "I don't know" and then leave it at that to a sufficient degree, while also continuing to look into it.
Most want to project their subjective past onto the situation, which is even worse in situations that are truly novel.
We instantly think about things like other species, and stratify the situation in dimensions that are important to us for egoic human reasons.
This also applies to compartmentalization, which interestingly gets a pass when we self-criticize the human race, even though it has done quite a bit of damage to our intelligence capabilities.
We look at the way compartments have dealt with UAPs and humans, and still ask why humans should fear UAPs, rather than asking why specific compartments should insist on hiding things. Compartments represent humans but they are not humans.
As it turns out, a lot of relevant compartments will quash UAP interest by covert charter and in fact fear disintegration if they are associated with UAPs or the unknown in general. On top of that, compartments that seize new information have a new bargaining chip and a reason to lock out third parties which may force open the issue. We should expect such compartments to restrict and hoard information, or peddle disinformation.
The fear-based perspective was the case with Rendlesham for example. But even after the information got out, the officer behind the publishing of the information is on record concluding that we might as well not look into it further...because he believes we can't do anything about whatever we find out anyway.
And we are talking about someone who is also saying he doesn't even know exactly what it is he's talking about.
"It wasn't invented here" has taken on a new meaning under the circumstances.