Interpretation sabotages both archaeology and ethnology. Cave art is seen in a way to benefit a prevailing view. Carvings, sculpture, and bas-relief at ancient sites are dismissed when anachronism is noticed, such as ancient, modern, or off-continent plants and animals, without trying other ways to explain them.
Art is too free to force into a particular mold. What might have been whimsy can become ‘ritual’ or ‘religious’ when looked at by a set of patronizing modern eyes.
So many examples of interpreted images fail to convince, or resemble other possibilities, that it erodes trust in prevailing history.
This set of observations arose from watching skeptibunkers piss all over this or that image or claim without addressing evidence in more than a superficial manner.
Clear photographs of long parallel lines on The Moon’s surface are dismissed as tracks from the Soviet rover. Oh?
First, the distance between tracks is woefully underestimated, failing to account for the distance at which the pictures were taken, which would offer scale. Scale being inconvenient to their dismissal, it’s ignored.
Secondly, they ignore the fact that there is no rover at either end of the tracks — and there are many such tracks. No rover exists on any of them. If tracks are visible, the much larger rover that made them should be.
So where’d the rover go? It must be visible if it made the tracks. No rover ever got retrieved. They explore, send telepathy, and when their power source drains, they sit inert. On the lunar surface they don’t corrode away.
Explanations offered by dismissers don’t withstand even casual scrutiny, yet they’re cited as if legitimate.
Blurred images are pareidolia or apophenia. Clear images are hoaxes. It’s that simple for dismissers.
Tic-Tac, Go-Fast, and Gimbal are the three main USN videos of UAP/UFO events used to set standards, to justify older sightings, and to lead us toward better observation. At least we’re admitting they’re real and we have no idea what they are. Sky and water, ocean in particular but lakes, estuaries, and rivers, too, have hosted these baffling things.
Dismisser is a better term than skeptibunker. Why bother with a juvenile neologism? Dismiss is what they do, ignoring evidence or evidence’s importance, sneering at witnesses and investigators, and generally ridiculing even the asking of questions. Quashing discussion and curiosity is the goal.
Why?
Do they work for some agenda or group?
Philip J. Klass, who had none, did. He was the top dismisser for decades, harsh and vile. He used ad hominem and outright lied to “win” debates or to crush media interest in the latest event. A revolting martinet who somehow gained media attention every time something caught the public’s attention, he was a closed mind for hire, smug and arrogant.
Turned out he was employed by the deniable realm. Spooks were behind the decades-long attempts to keep UFOs ridiculed. Chilling effect to stop interest and public discourse was their endgame.
Again, why?
If UFOs are all malarkey, why would government shadow agencies care if they caused public stirs and media speculation?
One idea why is that First Contact had taken place in the early 1950s and Earth had been sold out in exchange for some super weapon, or perhaps a slow bleed of advanced technology hints.
Lack of such a weapon, and solid pedigree for technological advances, make that notion doubtful, but it’s a certainty there are psychopaths at all levels of power, overt and covert, who’d sell out humanity for a penny profit or a perceived social advantage. For an ego boost. On impulse.
We’re living through a time dominated by such people-shaped predators and it’s not looking good for human survival past next year …
A more accepted view is that the denial realm genuinely feared a global crisis of chaos if ET presence were to be confirmed. Additionally, some whisper of a decades-long program to boil our awareness frog, bringing us along toward being able to realize “They’re here,” without bringing down global society in a panic. Mustn’t upset the hegemony’s hierarchy.
Not that the psychological effects of having an encounter with something beyond normal experience should be discounted. Some Bigfoot witnesses were so traumatized they needed hospital care. Some pilots who’d seen UFOs had subsequent close encounter experiences that upended their private lives.
While some of us seek paranormal experiences, others find them so shattering that their self-images are destroyed, their world view steeply undermined, and their lives strained or broken.
Rigid thinkers should stand clear of ghostly residue splashes and plug their ears to cryptid howling. Lights in the sky or wee beings in your room are to be avoided, too.
This sort of dichotomy is why it’s so difficult to shift culture. Too many want to avoid change, generally in fear of losing status. That’s the key fear that would kick in if we’re bluntly shown the fact that we’re neither alone nor anything like the dominant being.
In defense of the spooks’ paranoia about civilizations collapse, history shows that any contact with a technologically-superior group inevitably changes both, with the subordinate culture being destroyed or simply falling apart, disintegrating from culture shock and malaise.
So it would likely be, if ETI were revealed. We’d decay at once, having already begun the process long since in our suicidal arc of despair.
Such a revelation of ETI presence would threaten the prevailing hegemony, loosen the grip of control among the powers that be.
It’s in the power structure’s interest to keep the world in the dark, if First Contact is a fact.
Truth to power? Sure.
Truth from power? Never.
Keep in mind, too, that truth is subjective, while fact, being objective, can’t be twisted to fit preferences. That’s why the powers blur fact as much as they can while insisting on their truths.
Read George Orwell’s 1984, Yvgeny Zemyatin’s We, Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here, Trevor Hoyle’s Last Gasp, or any number of dystopian tales that have proliferated in science fiction from the 1960s on.
Deception and violence support political power. Power leads to corruption and bullying. Power reaches always for tyranny in the forms of authoritarianism, despotism, and all the abusive, sadistic control systems that control the masses for the few’s benefit.
Oligarchy buys its share of power, too, so greed must be added to the symptoms of fascism.
Diluting and sharing power, as in democracy, or democratic socialism, guards against tyranny. Checks and balances can be put into place to assure no single group gains dominance.
All this begins with thoughts and words. Next time you hear thought or talk being dismissed, you’ll be hearing fascism working hard to oppress, enslave, and destroy any semblance of freedom or liberty we imagine as our condition or birthright.
These fascist attacks on freethinking begin with the fringe, swarming claims and witnesses of paranormal events such as ghosts, cryptids, or UFOs. Once they channel thinking there, it’s much easier for them to intrude upon other matters, social and political. Any time dissent or discussion is crushed, violence blossoms hot and red as the fascist response. Crack-down, that’s their lust; to punish, inflict pain, ensure suffering among those they look down on and belittle. Those they dismiss. Only by such jackboot bully tactics can the fascists, the autocrats, feel momentarily superior, so they justify brutality why whipping fear, they validate massacres by shouting about imaginary rights, and they affirm their aristocratic lusts by abusing every advantage they can seize, by breaking every law they think themselves above.
Interpretation is the key to being free from tyranny, be it academic or political. Interpret for yourselves. Don’t let a prevailing interpretation lead you away from fact into some cess pool of manipulative subjective truths.
To believe is to pretend, with no evidence.
To know is to rely on independently-confirmable facts.
Follow the money, and the blood trail. History makes it all clear.
Wonder why anyone cares about discussing the paranormal, or twisting such discussions toward an agenda? Now you know.
It’s power warping truth to control you.
Cling to the facts, and cherish imaginative interpretations based on them, while avoiding the spin and lies from the dismissers.
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