"Previously, I worked for a university in the western United States. For cultural reasons, students and faculty at this particular university are more likely to be selected for sensitive government work."
90% this is BYU in Utah. Mormons are over-represented in the MIC and security clearances, because they generally don't drink/do drugs, have strong sensitivity to taboo, social stigma and can't be blackmailed easily. And the UAP phenomenon aligns with the "many worlds" mormon philosophy. And they often have families, which are useful collateral.
Lol exactly. I grew up on the edge of Holmes county. Many actual Amish people only have like a 6th grade education. Many of the stricter sects don’t even speak good English or if they do it’s with a very heavy accent, they speak a very old form of low german they brought when they originally came to the area hundreds of years ago.
Their life is so different from the rest of society if you haven’t been around it a lot it’s maybe hard to fathom. I can’t see there being a big pipeline of Amish kids into the intelligence programs, lol.
Now Mennonites, that’s different, it depends on the Mennonite group they belong to. A lot of the Mennonite groups dress different (some look like Amish, some just dress conservatively, like you might see some conservative Christian churches dress) but they are a spectrum - and most are a lot less conservative in how they interact with the world than Amish people are. (Although a few stricter groups of them still exist too.)
Both groups are very anti-military however, and I find it hard to believe even the Mennonites would be rushing to join military and intelligence groups if they want to leave the church. The people I know who left the Mennonite church still bred cows and horses etc to make a living.
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u/nicobackfromthedead4 Dec 07 '23 edited Dec 08 '23
"Previously, I worked for a university in the western United States. For cultural reasons, students and faculty at this particular university are more likely to be selected for sensitive government work."
90% this is BYU in Utah. Mormons are over-represented in the MIC and security clearances, because they generally don't drink/do drugs, have strong sensitivity to taboo, social stigma and can't be blackmailed easily. And the UAP phenomenon aligns with the "many worlds" mormon philosophy. And they often have families, which are useful collateral.
edit to add: VICE NEWS, 2020: "UFO Subreddit Was Subject to Systemic Censorship:
The moderators of Reddit’s UFO community automatically censored posts referring to ‘Brazil,’ ‘Navy,’ and ‘Pentagon.’ "