A friend posted this on Facebook:
How can it be, that in a city run by minority political elected officials and a police department headed up by minority officers, that the violence in the city is President Trump’s fault?
My reply was:
As you know brother everything’s Trump’s fault. It is very similar to the Ancient Aliens program on the History Channel. The answer to everything in history is aliens. 🙂
Hopefully, most of our audience is familiar with the program on the History Channel. While my comment was meant as a joke, there are a lot of similarities with that non-history History Channel program and media related to politics.
You see, the Ancient Aliens program gives only one side of a woven narrative. It presents a question to which the answer is always “Ancient Alien Theorists Say Yes!” Of course, educated people say Hold on there little doggy! I think you’re reading too much into all of that. Let’s ask an architect or engineer how something was built. Let’s ask an expert that studies medieval art about those items in an old painting. Your credibility is only as good as the experts you present.
The unwillingness to ask ourselves questions about our beliefs is what we are experiencing in the world of politics. The aliens built the pyramids and that’s that according to a friend. Forget about what the facts say. The same is true for those who say Trump is evil. Forget about what the facts say.
The Ancient Aliens program has another result in common with media brainwash people. Those who are sold on an idea will not let it go. As a matter of fact, the harder you try to show people evidence of the truth the harder they fight against it. The old saying comes into play, “perception is as good as reality.” Notice I add “as good as” because perception is NOT reality and savvy people understand that.
Another similarity I will mention is people who agree, create groups to reinforce their beliefs. See a Google search for Ancient Aliens Facebook Groups by clicking here. There are dozens of them. The number and type of media and political Facebook groups dwarfs almost all others. As in media & politics, it becomes a place to pool your collective ignorance on a subject.
The final similarity I will mention is overwhelming you with things to refute. Ancient Aliens does a good job at this just like people from a political point of view. They refuse to see their beliefs fall apart after you have successfully refuted their top claims. There will always be dozens more they will cling to. It is seemingly never-ending. As with media and politics, it is often about money, acceptance, and for many about fame. Not about truth.
I hope that was a fun little take on media and politics 🙂 For those who may be offended please see below. It has nothing to do with how smart you are. It has to do with how much you are willing to think about something and listening to alternative ideas. Don’t take it personally!
Click here for background on how this has nothing to do with intellect.
Side Note: Understand that I am not saying UFO’s or UAP’s as they are now referred to do not exist. Obviously they do. This has zero to do with the validity of the Ancient Aliens program. We, the public, also have no evidence of what these phenomena are.
Falling for this money-making gig (yes, it is mostly about the money) also has nothing to do with intellect. Most of us would agree that Elon Musk is a very bright guy. Back in August 2020, he tweeted out something about the subject.
“The SpaceX boss had tweeted what appeared to be support for conspiracy theorists who say aliens were involved in the colossal construction effort.” This prompted the headline “Egypt tells Elon Musk its pyramids were not built by aliens.”
Mr Musk did later tweet a link to a BBC History site about the lives of the pyramid builders, saying: “This BBC article provides a sensible summary for how it was done.”
Nobody knows if Musk was joking at the time he Tweeted or smoked too much dope. Either way, it goes to show otherwise smart people say stupid things.
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Reductive thought..but an interesting comparative!
Your may have meant your post to be humorous, but it should be taken very seriously.
Liberals/Democrats believe in evolution with all of their hearts. They claim it is based on science and censor any scientific dissent. Francis Crick received a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the co-discovery, with James Watson, of the DNA double helix. Crick, a highly intelligent and esteemed scientist, reasoned that life could not have evolved from non-living chemicals under any conceivable earth conditions. But the idea of a creator was unacceptable, since it would go against his atheistic faith.
So, Crick dreamed up “Directed Panspermia” where intelligent life on other planets intentionally seeded other planets with their own form of life. In other words, space aliens started the life on earth. (See http://www.insectman.us/testimony/crick.htm)
Belief in evolutionism leads to believe that preborn babies are not humans, there are more than two genders, earth is our mother, climate change can be controlled by humans, a white man can identify as a black teenage female, and on and on including the spacey idea that Joe Biden would be good for America.
Yes, I agree that there is a very serious aspect to all of this. I’ve tried my best to point out the many flaws in this subject. It would be better suited for the SyFy Channel. It totally disgraced the History Channel. We can spend days and days pointing out the fraud these people perpetuate. However, those who believe will not be persuaded by facts. It is a cult like brainwashing. There are many reasons this works on the psychological level. It has a lot to do with the old technique of Joseph Goebels. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Panspermia only changes the location to the grand question “How did life begin?” That is what the people who don’t accept creationism want to know. Saying aliens created life does not answer the question “Who created them?” That’s the question I always ask these folks. Normally you get that momentary blank stare and then they change the subject. Oddly, in most other areas of these people’s lives they seem “normal” if there is such a thing.
I’ve also got an acquaintance that is a Flat Earther. This is even a bit stranger than Ancient Aliens. Most Flat Earthers use the Bible as a reference, as do the ancient aliens crowd. Of course, you can read into many passages what you want to see. An old Bible Professor friend pointed out you can prove Atheism if you proof text the Scriptures. After all it says “There is no God” in Psalms 14:1. That works as long as you don’t read it in context which points to the full verse The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
It is about as insane as thinking if you defund police you will have less crime. You may as well say abolish all law and you will zero crime. You are absolutely spot on when you point out this is how we get many of the woes of the left. I mean if you believe in Flat Earth or Ancient Aliens you can see how someone can believe there are multiple sexes, babies are not actually human and have value and et cetera. The whole construct of reality evaporates. OK, I will stop now because I could write volumes on this subject.