posted on Jan, 17 2020 @ 08:36 PM
The poster 'YeahRight' makes some good valid points.
The silence of non-disclosure and non-admittance of anything is from a governmental and military perspective the correct stance to take. To clarify
the point I need to make a couple of preambles.
Reagan gave the speech in which he suggested how all countries would come together to form a kind of global alliance to face 'an alien threat from
outside this world'. Of course, 'the alien threat' wasn't just an allusion to alien intelligence's, but also asteroids or comet impacts. The thing is,
though, we don't have or live in a world where the sentiment to form a global alliance exists, no matter how much we believe it to be logical that we
would come together to face such a threat. Reagan and Gorbachev became good friend, they were both in their ways...good leaders, the kind that today's
world does not have. It was a different mindset back then. One that was more congenial and amicable to reduce the threat of nuclear
self-annihilation.
The point being made here is that today's world is more fraught with argumentative insularity, and carries a real threat of inexperienced leadership
absent of statesmanship and state-craft. Our world today is becoming more politically dysfunctional and distrusting, and that has or is making our
societies very fragile and brittle. Distrust and competing ideologies have oozed like pus out of the social fractures that have widened over the last
few decades. Differences between us, whether racial or sexual, have been joined by ideological schisms to make the world more tense and stressful, as
all aspects of difference are weaponized to score points over one another. We seek to be more 'righteous' than others through our points of view.
Non-disclosure would be seen as to maintain a balance with your perceived enemy. If it was to be disclosed by the US government that they are in some
form of diplomatic cooperation with an advanced extraterrestrial species, how do you think the enemies of America would react? How would America react
if Russia were to disclose something similar? How would the relations change, and what would either country do to counteract it? Disclosure could not
be a simple...'Oh by the way, we are being visited by intelligent species from outer space'. Such a disclosure would open up a real messy can-of-worms
if it were handled in a bad way. Disclosure has to be equitable across the globe, or it will be quite destabilising.
For myself, personally, disclosure would not affect me in too great a way. I believe I could handle it and integrate the fact within my experience,
but there are many who could not. I would feel elevated, vindicated, slightly disturbed and unsure about things, but for the many who could not handle
it, one wonders what they would do, how they would react, etc?