a POSIWID view of this is that these "government reveals UAP secrets" stories always seems like a way to issue an interrupt and neutralize volatility in another

a POSIWID view of this is that these "government reveals UAP secrets" stories always seems like a way to issue an interrupt and neutralize volatility in another mainstream story by redirecting attention to it. it's a popular distraction tactic with a lever attached to it. a hearing like this only takes a few days to a couple of weeks to schedule and arrange, and time spent mulling the story is time not spent on the present issues. UAPs aren't secret, it's a managed narrative. we don't need official disclosures to have serious conversations about consequences, meaning, and what we can learn from the fact of being observed. the best are probably already elaborated in fiction, notably in the star trek franchise regarding the species wide and civilizational reorientation impacts of first contact. if anything, the need for these performative hearings indicates how far off human civilization is from an official first contact, (I would estimate at least another century or more) because they exist to nudge a very long tail of people who are psychologically and culturally unprepared for it. by unprepared, I mean their strategy for negotiating in the world will revert to a zero sum material nihilism, like that of an animal or less than human, instead of elevate their perspective to an infinite sum openness to the possibilities of a nagivable universe.