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UFO and Aliens
An essay by Mark Hammons, featured in Trail of the Saucers, has my morning brain turning as I drink my coffee. There are a dozen interesting artifacts in the essay, but this one gave me the most pause: “Disclosure of this concealed knowledge threatens the existing authority structure to the core.” I am still puzzling over this artifact, like turning a distorted Rubik’s cube that needs to be shifted to perfect a cube, much less align colors. You’ll find the essay linked below.
Disclosure threatens authority. I think it reasonable to speculate that most authority is ruled by a concept of ‘might makes right.’ Even in being a parent, discipline is often regulated not through reasoning, but by expectation of compliances followed by sanction if there is no compliance. I tried to write that as neutral as possible to describe a thing that truly exists. We have this. Some people go overboard in the execution of sanctions. Is that because not all us can reason? Reason is time consuming. And, with reason comes arguments against reason, which is, by definition, is still reasonable.
I child makes a good argument, you should reward child for thinking.
There is time for reason, and there is time for compliance without negotiating. Son asking why he can’t cross the street, I can discuss that. Son starts…
