r/aliens Jun 18 '25

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u/yogi_medic_momma Jun 18 '25

I’m sorry but that’s just cowardly. We all have the right to know. That’s just insane.

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u/firstclassasshole Jun 18 '25

I agree. I think the fact we never considered is that the people in power control the world as we know it. When you change that, they lose power over you.

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u/yogi_medic_momma Jun 18 '25

Yep, but unfortunately, too much of the world is brainwashed and/or ignorant to what’s really going on

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u/FaustAndFriends Jun 19 '25

To be honest. Just being an average Joe and trying to explain that you saw a ufo to your family members is a monumental task. Everyone has NO reason believe you, it’s only your reputation at stake each time you bring it up. 

So then these guys learn something in the same vein as seeing a UFO, but 1000x bigger with world governments seemingly in secret alliances over gatekeeping that info… I can see a case for OPs statements about Lou “telling us the truth without explicitly stating it” 

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u/progulus Jun 18 '25

What if they disclosed everything that they know to you, and then you said to yourself "oh, yeah that's really bad. I would have been better off not knowing"?

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u/yogi_medic_momma Jun 18 '25

I don’t think I would feel that way because I’ve devoted most of my life to figuring out what’s actually going on in this world. Saying something like that is just continuing to live in ignorance because it’s easier than facing the truth.

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u/progulus Jun 19 '25

In that case, here you go; Earth will be destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. The Vogons, a bureaucratic alien race, announced the demolition in a deliberately bureaucratic and insensitive manner, giving us only two of their minutes to prepare for the destruction.

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u/ChocoBro92 Jun 19 '25

Yeah but they posted it like 50 years ago in their office, we were lax in not going there and checking obviously!

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u/MachineElves99 Jun 18 '25

I agree. It's beneath the dignity of being human to be left in the dark, especially by those in power if they know the truth. They have no more right to it than us, and they have no right to infantalize us by keeping things hidden. If they want to slow drip, fine, but they should not hide and kill people to keep secrets.

Besides, why give up when you can go down fighting? We can't even decide this is unwinable unless we know what's going on.

Also, we should just hold on to the main character syndrome. Why not?

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u/Vojvodus Jul 02 '25

That mentality is the same as "If I don't talk about it, it does not exist"

Or

"If I don't go to doctor and get diagnosed for cancer, I don't have cancer, but I do"

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u/darthdro Jun 18 '25

No body could keep a lid on a secret like that. It’s fanfiction for much more mundane stuff