tschai said:
Many areas of Science, History and Religion have been set back-even halted-and grossly distorted due to the closed minds-up in the ivory towers of academia that will not allow the "facts" to tamper with their pet theories-and so suppress those facts, hide them away in musty archives or worse-destroy them completely.
I often wonder how fast an STO 3rd density race can progress technologically, considering they make no assumptions and have a critical, objective, and totally open approach to reality. I can't even imagine how far ahead we'd be if we weren't constantly held up by religions, by psychopathic war-mongers, by the pathocracy and the 4th density control system in general, and most of all our own assumptions/preconceptions/other self-imposed blocks. Then again, most of our technology most likely wouldn't even exist had it not been for our entropic state. Our most advanced technology is developed by the military industrial complex for military purposes, so in another sense, it is because of those psychopathic war-mongers that we have the technology we do today - most of it was developed for war initially, and later adapted to civilian use.
The C's talked about ancient humanity and things that they did that aren't even reminiscent of our current technology, in fact we wouldn't even call it technology now due to our extremely narrow view of what constitutes "technology". They mentioned stuff like sound-wave focusing, and using stones to channel and do other things.
The race in the miniseries "V" had very similar technology to our own, similar military hierarchy, etc. In fact, they were basically us - only with lasers and spaceships. Of course considering the majority of humanity thing that humanity as a whole is a benevolent civilization governed by benevolent leaders who sometimes just make "errors in judgement" and make wars, and occasional "bad apples", it's little wonder that despite the fact that the aliens were fundementally STS just like us, they were seen as benevolent and loving too.
And it's kinda funny just how obvious this is - what makes this miniseries so good is its believability in terms of how humanity may react to similar circumstances. But I wonder if it creates a cognitive dissonance in the minds of those who see it? You see humanity in the movie reacting a certain way, and you think "yes, that is believable, people are a bunch of ignorant and naive creatures" - but when they walk out of the theatre, they go back to their ideas that in REALITY this isn't happening at all, even if in the movie the concept was believable, which is what made the movie so good in the first place. So it's like a part of you knows that humanity is ignorant and naive and recognizes this reality in the movie, but as soon as you walk out the other part takes over and says "ha it's just a movie". What happens when those 2 parts finally meet each other?
Same thing with history and Nazi Germany - people look at how Hitler and the Nazis fooled Germany and the whole world, they learn in highschool history class how this happened over and over and over and they accept it and shrug it off. But for some reason those same people go back to thinking that it could never happen in OUR lifetimes, that people now are somehow wiser/smarter and wouldn't let it happen. Do they realise that people during Nazi Germany, when reading about past tyrants in highschool history class, also thought that it could never happen in THEIR lifetimes? Do they realise that EVERY generation thought this about their own generation - and that assumption due to ignorance is why it happened again and again? Apparently not, otherwise they'd be forced to question WHY - but no thanks to the media's constant propaganda that our current civilization is so advanced and civilized and sophisticated, it creates the impression that the human race is somehow more "advanced" than it was in the past in areas OTHER than pure technology and certain scientific understandings. But the dynamic of pathocracy has nothing to do with technology and science, and everything to do with controlling our entropic/mechanical/STS natures - that which has never ever changed, since it is human nature.
Interestingly, those same people tend to think that disasters can still happen - but again in the far off future after they're long dead. So it's like disasters used to happen all the time in history for natural and human-nature reasons, then they STOPPED happening during the lifetime of the individual in question, and as soon as he dies, disaster resumes. That seems to be the thinking of most people about their life - but how absurd is that? They expect humanity to suddenly become wise and nature to stop all it is doing to make the duration of their life magically comfortable - and just wait till the person dies before resuming hell. Yup, makes sense!
