Fear, Fables, and Little Green Men: Are We Being Conditioned?

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Ever found yourself sipping a rooibos tea, gazing at the star-spangled sky, and wondered, ‘What if the folks in power have been hiding a celestial secret?’ It’s not as outlandish as it might sound. Let’s unpack this for a moment, shall we?

Suppose you’re the top brass, the big cheese in the world governments. You’ve got this monumental secret about life beyond our pale blue dot, that aliens are actually real, and you’re left scratching your head, figuring out how to share this without causing a national frenzy. I mean… people would go absolutely berzerk if they had to know the truth. Some would worship the aliens, some would want to go with them, and some would just, well, not want to be here anymore to face our new reality. So you’d likely opt for a gradual reveal, dropping hints like breadcrumbs for us everyday folk to pick up. It’s a bit like helping a pup get used to a new home, introducing it gradually so it doesn’t get spooked. Maybe one sighting here, one report leaking there, next thing BAM, they appear in person, or being, or however the heck we will be referring to them. Them probably. okay, the mystery is solved.

Now the tricky part comes when the cat is finally out of the bag – aliens are real! Suddenly, those who claimed to have been whisked away by extraterrestrials in abductions throughout our history – those we previously dismissed as batty or touched – seem a lot less loony, and people might start to demand answers. We, the average citizens, would want the truth, wouldn’t we? Our people have been kidnapped and abducted multiple times in our past… some have vicious stories to share and others simply fell in love with their would-be overlords. Now even if the powers that be simply shrug and claim ignorance, they’d still have to address the situation. Who knows, that could lead to a worldwide revolt against these intergalactic visitors? If there is evidence (which there is) that alien abductions are now officially real since aliens are real… wouldn’t you also want some answers?

But let’s flip the script here. What if all these stories about alien abductions were part of a master plan? A bit of good old-fashioned fear-mongering, prepping us to be so terrified that when our cosmic neighbours show up, we’d be too scared to extend a hand of friendship? What if they were all faked by our governments, they knew aliens were real, and decided ‘hey, if we pretend to abduct them as aliens, eventually when we reveal the truth, they would simply fall in line and we can use the abductions as evidence to believe in us‘ or something along those lines…

Well, In this madcap scenario, the governments play the heroes, our defenders against the star-hopping alien bogeymen. And just like that, they’ve got us dancing to their tune, pulling the strings through fear.

It sounds like something ripped straight from a sci-fi novel, doesn’t it? But it’s a thought-provoking concept to chew over with your friends. Makes you wonder, ‘what if...?’