Ancient Aliens

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Aliens among us? Aliens visiting us? Alien inspired technology in our past?

I thought I had seen it all but the other week I watched the History channels Ancient Alien episodes, yes all of them. It made me realise just how seriously we all take our aliens, and how over the past thirty or so years the media streaming of the information is pushing us to believe more than some of us want to believe. The drive here is not so much that aliens are involved but that the media want you to watch them.

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Every conspiracy theory has one detail missing that most people seem to overlook. Proof. Of course once you start to listen to the stories of the people in the videos, combined with the magic of the images that are put in front of you and the production quality and suspense music, then it becomes hard to take the truth from the stories. As a 'story teller' I understand how to have someone believe anything I say, I aim to be a writer and hope to one day publish more than one book but of course I write fiction. I do exactly as these people do, I take a small piece of information and I exaggerate the facts within the main topic to sway you into believing that what I am telling you is truth. It is not hard when you really want to go on the journey I take you on.

In the Ancient Aliens episodes there were many, many examples of this story telling that alerted me to the stretching of the experts imaginations. The beauty of this program was the wording. "Could it be possible' was used at least five times in every episode, well of course anything is possible especially if you follow string theory. They used this phrase often to push you into their way of thinking, as every conspiracy theory should do. You never tell someone what they should believe, you sway them; you sway them by using their intellect to come around gently to your way of thinking. "Could it be possible that the reason we never went back to the moon was because NASA astronauts found evidence of alien life and were told never to return?" Of course it could be possible but not likely. It is more likely that we never returned because they found nothing and the huge cost to go to the moon to find nothing again was unjustified, but I bet even you felt deflated reading the real reason. "Could it be possible" is used here to open your mind to their 'Experts" way of thinking, ask any good defence attorney how they put doubt into the juries minds..Could it be possible that Joe Jackson did not own gloves.

Alien Experts... Can there be such a thing? Could it be possible that the area 51 stories are true and we have autopsied real otherworldly beings? Again anything is possible but if there are aliens in area 51 then why can’t we find a real ‘alien expert’. Could it be possible that one does not exist?

We humans as a species love a good story, it is the reason fiction books sell so well, why Hollywood is so wealthy, and why we listen to stories about aliens and alien abductions.  This documentary is just another story, another Hollywood blockbuster designed to entertain that part of us that loves to hear conspiracies, that part of our psyche that loves to hear about fairies and frogs turning into princes.

As a science fiction writer I always love a good story, but as an intellectual, born and living in the 21st century I have to ask the obvious questions about a lot of what was raised on this program… Isn’t it possible that mankind has been able to achieve nuclear power without alien help? Well if you follow the history of uranium from Marie Curie to Einstein and Edward Teller, then the facts speak for themselves. Over a hundred years it took many great minds to slowly discover this power through trial and error. Let us not forget that Marie Curie and her husband died as a result of radiation poisoning. If their knowledge come from aliens don’t you think they would have said “watch yourself with this stuff”? Isn't it possible the Egyptians built the Pyramids over the hundreds of years the pharaohs were in power? I suppose in a couple of hundred years they might ask “how did they build the Empire state building in only a year with only 3500 people? If we wanted to put the labour and effort into it, imagine what we could build in 20 years with 100,000 people!

I agree there are a lot of mysteries in the documentaries but the one mystery that was not explained was “why produce over 30 hours of documentary with absolutely no evidence of any kind?” Could it be possible that the advertising dollar generated by the conspiracy driven by our thirst for a good story was too great to turn away from? Or could it be that aliens are, and have been among us over the centuries and it is the secret mission of the media to feed us these stories so when they do come to farm us like pork, we are happy to accept it? I suppose anything is possible.

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