The Gods Must Be Crazy, starring the Namibian San farmer and actor Nǃxau
ǂToma, may provide the best analogy for UFO crashes.
A popular discussion point about aliens, ‘if they’re so smart why do they keep crashing?’ Gary Nolan is the most recent scientist to respond to this. He has a good point, you’l find it linked below. Richard Dolan suggests al tech, even advanced tech, has a fail rate. How many human planes have to fly for 1 crash? Wel , we have statistics. Aviation is the safest form of travel, but there are fails. So, can we project a fail rate on UFO tech, or are the crashes the equivalent of aliens disposing of spent coke bottles?
What do we do with yesterday’s tech? We dispose of it in landfil s. With airplanes, there's a parking lot in the desert. UFOs crashed in a desert? There you go.
UFOs are not rocket science. Were crashed ships piloted by aliens or androids so sophisticated humans couldn’t tel the difference between tech and biological beings? Mind you, the military would have you believe their smartest officer, who was involved in nuclear weapons delivery and security, couldn’t discern between an alien ship and a coke bottle.
And this is where the comedy begins. The human family has been going nuts for 75 years, and may have been nuts for the history of humanity, as nicely il ustrated in the movie the Gods Must be Crazy, a 1980 film that showed a person getting into their car, driving ten feet to the end of
the driveway, getting out, getting the mail from the box, and driving back into the driveway. More time, effort, and energy was exerted to get the mail using the car than would have been spent if the human just walked over and got the mail.
We’re essential y going nuts because of a coke bottle that an alien discarded. Maybe they
wanted to see what we would do with it. Maybe they didn’t think of us at al . If we assume any reasonable standard of people, it’s more likely that crashed ships are comparable to a guy in a Cessna that simply tossed his coke bottle out the window because, wel , what else would you do with your trash?
The games we play…
I would like to think aliens aren’t like humans and they don’t consider their fel ow beings disposable. Then again, do queen bees and ants consider their workers disposable? Do they
colony care if one goes missing? There might be an answer to how does the ‘one’ feel when
separated. Someone did that experiment. You’l find it linked below. Even I could empathize with that ‘one.’
Humans are social animals. In the right group, in the right numbers, under the right governance of philosophy, most humans do wel most the time. That’s one reason we’re so successful. The Gods Must Be Crazy is fiction, but the concept of interjecting a coke bottle into a tribe that owns nothing they can’t make with their hands was very accurate. It resulted in fighting, jealousy, and harming others to utilize the coke bottle. Philosophies emerged on how to use the coke bottle.
Philosophies emerged as to why the Gods gave it to them. They were on the road to evolving into class society, those who have and those who have not.
It had nothing to do with them.
UFOs and UFO crashes likely have nothing to do with humans. If aliens want to communicate
with humans, they are sophisticated enough that they could do so on an individual or societal level. It doesn’t take much effort to discover that humans are governed more often than not by paradigms, not truth. Tel ing someone governed by cult beliefs they’re wrong, or they’re crazy, results in fighting, jealousy, and harming others to utilize the coke bottle. The coke bottle in this case is the philosophy. The philosophy is not the real thing.
It’s just a thing. It’s not to say the philosophy isn’t functional y useful. Lies can be very practical!
People lie. I am very interested in this thing we do. Science says we al do it, and yet we stil have people wondering why we don’t trust scientists… Interesting.
When someone at work asks me how I am, I see that as a casual greeting recognizing a person is good to go, now let’s go, we got work to do. They don’t real y want to STOP and hear about you being stuck in traffic or how your dog got out as you left for work.
The Dogs Must Be Crazy wil be the next movie about why humans have to go to work and dress dogs up in human clothes or push them in baby carts… or why humans don’t sniff
butts???
‘I am fine’ is the right answer for most greetings. I personal y don’t like that and avoid casual, but most people know it’s a game at some level and just play it to be nice. In avoiding it, I often came off as aloof and arrogant. I was cal ed out on it multiple times. My arguments against the game didn’t result in easier discourse or win me any friends. Enough people don’t want to play the game that many companies have developed HR policies to punish people for not playing the game. My decline in hearing is now my excuse for not playing the game, as more than likely I truly didn’t hear the casual, “hey, John, how are you?” that was spoken to me in passing, not directly at me so I can read your lips.
I find it very humorous that people get so upset that you seem to be ignoring them, but you’re just hearing impaired. People get loud. As if you yel ing wil repair my hearing. Loud also, surprisingly, impairs lip reading. And how about that one time that girl hit a blind guy because she got mad he was staring at her… Yeah, humans respond to lies, even the ones they tel
themselves.
Technical y a game isn’t a lie, but it’s part of the continuum of lying. Game lying is reasonably approved of in gambling, setups for jokes, responding to a wife’s question about her dress or quality of the meal she labored over, haggling, bartering, and commerce.
Humans and Aliens lie.
We know humans lie. Government officials and lawyers seem to lie the best. There are
government officials who have come out saying we know aliens lie. I often wonder if that was the lie government officials used to obfuscate the fact that they lie. We know they lie, so when they say aliens lie, is that a lie so we don’t trust aliens?
‘Aliens lie’ is usual y in reference to the grays, who may be more like us than we like to acknowledge. This truth that they lie has been discussed by Linda Moulton Howe in her book Glimpses of Other Realities, 1998, so this goes way back. It’s also the subject in Whitley Strieber’s book Them, just out.
Knowing how aggressive humans can be, I wil lie, tap-dance, and put on a show not to get
pummeled. Those were my first response strategies I learned to survive in my dysfunctional family. Once you have mastered these, they become default and can be easily triggered. It
takes effort to be bravely genuine. I am pretty genuine most of the time, but I can be triggered into defense mode.
We al had dysfunctional families. We’ve al had dysfunctional teachers. We are al human. We al learn to lie. There is a scientific correlation between lying and success. The better you lie, the more economical y successful you are. Heck, if you can act you can lie, which means actors are right up there with government officials and lawyers.
Al this to say sometimes humans lie. Not al the time. Most of the time we tel the truth. So often people wil be persuaded by the lie, because as Mark Twain said, truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense. This is seriously keen to note, as we saw this play out in the JD/AH affair. Ultimately, truth always wins.
We lie, but not al the time. Some of us lie more than others. Stil , if nothing could be trusted at al , we’d not survive as a species. Sometimes our lies are not direct lies, but beliefs we adopt to be accepted in our communities. AH seriously believes she is right. She also likely has mental health issues.
Which means, technical y she’s not ‘lying’ as much as she’s just not wel . Lying can be a
measure of mental health, likely reveals a personality disorder, and that can be evidence of trauma. Malingering is clinical diagnosis where a person lies to get a benefit, but I wouldn’t punish a homeless person in the mid of winter lying about suicide just so he can have a bed and a hot meal. In fact, if the person didn’t lie sufficiently where the state demands the hospital respond, I would be worried about that person. There are some people who can’t lie, and that should also be a recognized mental health concern. So, we probably need a compassionate
way to address people that lie and don’t lie.
Because we lie to ourselves more often than others.
‘Yeah, I am doing fine, I don’t need to eat better or exercise, I got this,” is a lie. And if you tel yourself this once or twice a year, maybe you’l be okay, cause heck, it’s okay to take a break and maybe cope with a pizza and beer, but if this lie becomes the norm, at some point in the future you might find walking to the end of the street to get the mail is too burdensome, so you get in the car, drive ten feet, get out, col ect the mail, get back in the car, drive back to parking position, get out of the car, col ect the mail from the car, and go inside.
Another example, tel ing someone I don’t vote and I am neither a republican or a democrat has not won me any friends, as many people have a limited range of scripts. If a human doesn’t fit into a category, they get excommunicated. Sometimes we excommunicate ourselves because
we don’t want to lie, we don’t want to fight about it, and we seriously want to try and educate others about a position. I am not trying to convert you, don’t convert me. Conversion is evidence someone is lying. It’s agenda driven.
Most people, most of the time, do the right thing because it’s right, not because they need a ral y and cheerleaders.
And so, imagine an alien meets a human. They know we’re crazy. You want to avoid harm.
Tel ing someone a truth when they wholeheartedly believe the lie can be harmful. It can actual y kil a person. If they don’t kil themselves they might kil the messenger. And al of this over a coke bottle philosophy.
This doesn’t mean there aren’t things to be passionate about. Gandhi was very passionate
about liberating India. The British were very keen on keeping this land they acquired. They liked the slaves and the untouchable class, as it is just part of a monarchy. By promoting peace while
simultaneously just ignoring governance, Gandhi changed the world. He wasn’t rich. He wasn’t a warrior. He was just right. And most British people are decent people and they didn’t want to beat the Indians into submission. Wel , they did at first. Some folks were seriously harmed.
Some died. But that could not be maintained.
Ghandi was kil ed because of a lie.
War, on the other hand, apparently can go on forever. 75 years of endless wars? Is that the trick, just stop fighting?
There is always a game behind human lying. Someone is always being managed or harmed.
Someone is always avoiding being managed or harmed. Aliens hold the high ground in both
tangible position and technology, and so they don’t have to lie, but maybe, sometimes, when you’re dealing with crazy folks, you just got to be as crazy as them.
Maybe they lie because we’re so used to people in power lying that this is the only way they can reveal their authority. If they told the truth, we might think they were the devil!
Instead, they initiate contact, they make an alignment with the biggest country of liars ever, and are slowly bringing it back to right by showing how many cracks are in the local philosophies.
Eventual y you get around to explaining the crash; ‘oh, yeah. Sorry about that. That was just a coke bottle. We’l try and police our trash a little better in the future.’
Recommended:
Can They Be Trusted?… E.T. Web of Lies — Whitley Strieber on Close Encounter
