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Boflys's avatar

I hate to be petty but anything with Chuck Schumer on it is probably a scam and bad for us.

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Aliens are everywhere, migrating from various countries to other various countries where they are needed most, apparently.

I sometimes wonder why we are so gullible that we easily believe in that which we cannot see, cannot find, cannot examine or cannot verify. Like Santa, UFOs, democracy, or the one hidden hand controlling the entire world, all 16 billion hands.

On the other hand (sorry), we don’t believe or fiercely deny that which is right in front of our face, like poisoning food (as evidenced by the list of ingredients on the package), professional ignorance and arrogance (2020-2023 and going), refusing you the right to coexist in the society on equal rights (as proven by immunity to some, tax holidays for some, subsidies and sponsoring to some, leaving the medical and legal fields not regulated by the mandatory rules and state-imposed price lists, and more).

We perpetuate the “alien technology” myth, happily empowering those invisible (bad, obviously) powers whom we attribute with anything that lurks in our imagination. And we put ourselves in a lost position, but heroic one, fighting (well, not really, merely talking about it) the Goliath, and - oh boy - knowing everything about this secret technology, its hiding, and its uses.

To balance this, we are unable to handle our home, family, school, work problems, we cannot communicate what we want or don’t want, we cannot talk to our closest folks in a diplomatic and mannerly way, forget understanding or patience. We don’t even know why we do what we do. We have no idea - and we are not interested to find out - why we are habitually late, or early, or at a wrong place or time, forgetting things, misplacing objects, mixing words and scenarios, or why we are triggered by some words, even when they denote realities completely foreign to us. We never inquire our own minds about the avalanche of biases that we use to destroy our life. We are not really interested in growing and becoming “more” of ourselves, but we enjoy harming others. We never make an inventory in the evening to find out whether this day was better than yesterday - but we draw wide conclusions about people, groups, businesses that we have never met, talked to or even seen in real life. We love to advocate and vote for those who don’t and will never care about us, but we believe they do and will, despite the uninterrupted continuous trail of evidence of the last 200 years or more.

Maybe this world, our first-person experience of our own life, is the space that we fear most. Alien, isn’t it?

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