Seraphim Rose talks about aliens in Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future and says a similar thing. While there is fraud, some of these encounters with "aliens" seem like clear demonic encounters. It's an interesting book.
There definitely seems to be an angle there where they want to convince humans of the existence of some super high technology alien race and that we need to do <<whatever false demonic religion>> in order to save the world from some impending disaster, or to ascend to a higher technological plane of being etc. At the moment it seems to be a non starter but some people for sure would be all in on this. I don't know if this is relevant but <<child hurters>> were almost always big star trek fans when star trek was still a relevant thing. Maybe a link with this kind of futuristic utopian science fiction type belief system.
One thing which bothered me with the ancient aliens stuff is how they often seem to take for granted that people in the past were inferior. There's some tacit buy-in to a progressivist evolutionary world view with this kind of outlook. Or they don't think people can do anything at all which made for a fun tiktok trend "we couldn't build the pyramids with today's tools. Today's tools:" cue into ridiculously huge mining equipment or cranes.
Seraphim Rose talks about aliens in Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future and says a similar thing. While there is fraud, some of these encounters with "aliens" seem like clear demonic encounters. It's an interesting book.
There definitely seems to be an angle there where they want to convince humans of the existence of some super high technology alien race and that we need to do <<whatever false demonic religion>> in order to save the world from some impending disaster, or to ascend to a higher technological plane of being etc. At the moment it seems to be a non starter but some people for sure would be all in on this. I don't know if this is relevant but <<child hurters>> were almost always big star trek fans when star trek was still a relevant thing. Maybe a link with this kind of futuristic utopian science fiction type belief system.
One thing which bothered me with the ancient aliens stuff is how they often seem to take for granted that people in the past were inferior. There's some tacit buy-in to a progressivist evolutionary world view with this kind of outlook. Or they don't think people can do anything at all which made for a fun tiktok trend "we couldn't build the pyramids with today's tools. Today's tools:" cue into ridiculously huge mining equipment or cranes.
This is great. How do we get you on Rogan?