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Originally Posted by Etienne
Those people Want. To. Believe. And they will, no matter what.
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"Those"? Believers, or sceptics? You would be surprised how stubbornly sceptics "believe", too. They still are determined to talk of a weather balloon in the upper layers of atmosphere when the thing was measured on radar to criss cross at sharp angles with 17.000 km/h.
For some it must be because they want it to be. For others it cannot be what they do not wish to be.
Imagining contact with aliens - yesssyesssyesss, but only under conditions that
we have set and under control of
our terms and meanings.
We are the masters of the place. After all Captain Kirk was a homo sapiens being in control and command, and not a victim of foreign powers that decided about his fate by their own will, not asking him. Only superheroes like him can suffer from notorious saving-the-universe-syndrome. where does it lead if there is contact with aliens who do not ask us about the when, the where and the how? We only contact aliens under conditons of negotiating on the same eye level, right?
Man most often reacts with panic and traumatisation when being in a situation he does not understand, where he has no power over it, and where he is disoriented. We cannot bear to live in a world that does not make sense to us, we depend on seeing a meaning. Deny this to people, and I promise you that most of them will panic, sometime in a dramatic, sometimes in a more subtle form - even in far more earthly situations than alien abductions and grey dwarfs poking holes into their noses and skull bones. and the human brain can become quite creative and visual when trying to build imagined fantasies that should fill holes in our concepts of a meaningful, controllable world.
There is a phenomenon. It is old, maybe has been with us since the dawn of mankind - and the simple truth is that it is beyond our control, that we do not know anything for sure about it, and have no reasonable idea whatever.
And many of us don'T like that, like we also do not like the presence of an invisible foreign man in our home. That's why some ignore it, or distort it, or nice-talk it, or simply reject to accept the existence of the phenomenen itself . all that are strategies to cope with upcoming panic, and to move beyond the fact of having to accept to live in a state of lacking knowledge and control.