The UAP phenomenon implies the existence of a superhuman authority that humans must submit to. By appealing to this authority, whether directly or by allowing the subject to suppose such an arrangement must exist, human power structures are able to reclaim the theological principle of a will and aims beyond human understanding. In doing so, all acts of inhumane violence, elite tomfoolery, and evidence for the invalidity of moral and ethical justifications for enshrining power in our existing institutions become handwaveable and invite the subject to these acts and arrangements to engage in the storytelling aspect of social mythmaking that is starkly lacking in the post modern global secular state order. - Any_Pilot6455 on the truanon sub.
So, in regards to the explanation for this UFO shit being "the military wants more money", I kept going "but the military can get all the money it wants, without making up nonsense about aliens".
... but I didn't consider a nascent desire for the ruling class to bring back a hightened religious fervor, as an opiate for the masses. In this God is Dead world, where even the overtly religious don't sound convinced of their beliefs, the ruling class needs human beings to stop thinking that human beings are in charge of human beings.
They need a new God to blame for everything.
Capitalists would much rather we blame aliens for our miseries instead of capitalists.
The ruling class would much rather have us believe they're just as powerless in the face of an omnipresent God-Thing / Alien-Thing, then to believe they - the wealthy and powerful humans - really are in charge, and that our miseries are the result of their choices and actions / inactions.
So much of our government and economy revolves around offloading responsibility for bad things. One party can blame the other party, one branch of govt can blame another branch, the feds can blame the states, the states can blame the feds, ceo's can blame weak regulations, regulators can blame voters, voters can blame non voters. How nice it would be for the people in charge if we all just collectively blamed aliens, while simultaneously assuming there's nothing we can do about it.
So like Project Blue Beam? Basically a conspiracy theory about the NWO using powerful and realistic projections in the night-sky to simulate a religious or alien experience, and thus foster a new religion/economic order.
If we entertain that there's a grain of truth to the old stories (or that people have been inspired by these tales to make them real), maybe that's why there's been so much investment into AI and virtual/augmented reality, and the ruling class thinks there will be the potential for that kind of mass illusion soon, so they're trying to build the infrastructure and public buy-in of an idea like that.
But honestly, it would probably be a case of tech-illiterate congressmen and CIA guys getting scammed by Silicon Valley. The Thiels, Zuckerbergs and Musks probably sold all this AR and brain-implant shit to the Deep Throat Guys as a sure way to maintain control, but only because these dorks have no actual material analysis, only misunderstood and half-remembered sci-fi rattling around in their skulls.
It's going to be hilarious when they try to roll out the Mass Delusion Machine to make everyone think there's an alien invasion, and it just bricks because they didn't rent enough server space, or they lied about their progress to keep the grift going, or maybe people are just too poor to buy the latest Skull-Chip (because of course even your plans for world domination have to be in the framework of the free market)
Also, it would be a neat idea for the ruling class to just pretend that Earth has been annexed by the Galactic Conglomerate or whatever, deflecting all the blame for the exploitation upwards to a fictional villain.
I mean yeah, people have had delusional disorders, experienced hallucinations, and eaten various toxic things forever, and there are tons of bizarre atmospheric and other phenomena out there. There's even an outside chance some kind of space craft has show up in the last 1-3 thousand years.
Nah, they've just saturated most of the entertainment markets and want to stop paying labor.
Mostly useful for a bunch of technical work like overlaying schematics on machinery you're working on. It's not going to instill religious experiences or anything. Brain implants have been around for decades, Musk's company is mostly just re-doing decades old research badly.
You don't need anything esoteric or weird to explain any of this.
Yeah, that's my point, not that these things will work, but that the ruling class is delusional enough to think they will.
I was thinking about this exact thing. Aliens could just announce themselves tonight in the sky or project onto the moon and be like "yeah we're in charge now" the fuck are humans going to do, nuke them? GG kiddo
Why would we even want to? Can't be worse than the current guys.
They'll have everyone convinced right up until the point where the alien spaceship makes a really loud "USB disconnected" noise