You're absolutely spot on, there are some nutters out there who will literally do anything to get their 5 minutes of fame. Which is a shame because it leads the line of social thinking towards ridicule to those who have something important to say. A lot of the programs I've seen on the subject are for entertainment value only, perhaps serving slightly to provoke trains of thought but mostly to propogate the same information, rehashed into a format for today's idiots.
I mean, the Roswell crash thing has been done to death. It started out as a UFO, then it was a weather balloon. Then the guy who found it was made out to be mental. Then the existence of Area 51 itself was denied. Then the US government realised people could drive past it and phsyically see it, so they acknowledged it again. Then Bob Lazar came out and talked about S4, whose existence was also flat out denied. Then, using a pair of highend binochulars and a video camera, scaled the mountain behind it and videoed it. So they had to acknowledge that too. Plausible deniability is a cunning tool when used on susceptible people, but you'd have to be some kind of ****** to believe there isn't something we aren't being told. I mean it's not even that hard to look into it yourself. The problem is that it's such a stigma to believe in such a thing, so socially unacceptable that people just aren't interested in what you have to say because to do so would make them part of a tiny minority, a classification which many people fear. Another common misconception is that it's restricted to the US, that it's an American thing to encounter misdirection, deciet and lies from those who lead the country. Our government's hands are probably just as dirty, but nobody really asks enough questions to force the issue. I mean, we're now living in a country where multiculturism is becoming rife and most of the people I encounter want to "ship them back off to where they come from". How on Earth are we as a society expected to make the next step in cultural and scientific evolution if the people who make up such a society are backwards thinking morons who's sole concern is how they're being robbed of work by "Johnny Foreigners" because they can't be arsed to get up off their backsides and find a job. I think Russell Brand is a bit of a tit, but he's got the right idea. We should be trying to stir things up, we should be trying to force the issue and yet we don't. We call those who try to make a change "rioters" and "terrorists", "idealists" and "weirdos". We get given the best of a bad bunch to vote for and we settle because every year we get told "it'll be better in a decade". Well, the time is now and we're worse than ever, according to some people. As Ghandi once said, "be the change you want to see in the world.".
I had a very close friend who worked out of RAF Fylingdales for three and a bit years and he was one of the soundest, intelligent and generous people I ever had the pleasure of meeting. He could never tell me much about his work, but on the rare occasion he did, there was often a mixture of excitement and sadness in his voice. Some of the things he told me were so beyond my expectations that I literally pestered him for days on end for him to expand but he never did.
Sadly, he passed away last year at the not very old age of 37 of hypothermia, so I guess I'll never get to find out what it was he really knew, but it at least gave me hope that there might be things going on that I can't control, but might nonetheless shake society into taking action. Or maybe he was totally wrong and I should ignore everything he told me. A great shame that would be indeed.
