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by graderjs 1229 days ago
Yeah! It’s only our fear that it is legitimately something revolutionary that causes us to ‘protect ourselves’ by not looking at it… and it’s that same fear that causes us to pretend it is not legitimate, only because we’re afraid that it is. Which then causes us to not just do the rational thing of facing it and investigating it. We’re basically denying our first highly-informative impression because we don’t want it to be true. Humans are wack
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nprateem 1229 days ago
It also shows the outstanding success of the psyops in the 60s to discredit anyone reporting UFOs.

Once you remove your socialised biases, it would seem obvious there's something intelligent there worth investigating.

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graderjs 1229 days ago
> Once you remove your socialised biases, it would seem obvious there's something intelligent there worth investigating.

Well, yeah, but it's not my socialised biases, I don't have any about this topic!

And it's not even generally Westerners, a lot of Indians, Chinese, Brazilians and folks from everywhere have the same fear--despite their history (but you know everyone these days is "modern" and skepticism of the Old Wisdom is trendy, sadly). Some of that fear, sure, is psyops, but less than you think. Probably more than half is simply the terror that our Human Myth is wrong. Ryan Graves (post author) said it well in a podcast (KONCRETE, I think). Paraphrasing:

  Most people don't have the ability to integrate this information into their reality and continue their day to day life immediately. It would require longer contemplation. So instead of doing that, they just block themselves from seeing it.
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