Stephen Morgan wrote:Thoughtography. The human mind can imprint images on film. Possibly also whatever light sensitive cell is used in digital photo cameras. If they can make you see it with your eyes, they can make your camera record what isn't there.
Of course. But is this any less outrageous a conjecture than the idea that space vehicles, put together in ways very much like advanced aircraft we already have, are in flight over our heads? Not really. In fact it seems a much more complex series of justifications just in order to avoid coming to terms with the notion that the saucer pilots might own rivet guns and wrenches. There must be a logical razor somewhere in the shaving kit for that. One might as well concede that that nothing we perceive is in any manner truely analgous to what we think we perceive. Which, come to think of it, it pretty much the general take that I get from the quotes of the Misters Shavers and Fort you've provided.
Essentially, we are retarded animals, backwater rubes in fancy, ill-fitting hats, living under the misapprehension that anything we do or say has any sense or purpose to it at all. The finest symphony is actually the mere reflexive, drooling yowl of a one-eyed teratomic carp. And this is a notion which I am perfectly willing to entertain, solving, as it does, many nagging questions, such as why we persist in killing each other and destroying our planet for victorious outcomes which boil down in real terms to the luxury of private air travel, beach time, and well tailored clothing, as well as how anyone ever accepted George W. as a leader.
But behind all those asumptions is the "before". So, was there a time in which the lives of men ever fit more properly into the environment of our planet? There seem to be any number of stories and evidences that things weren't always this way. Was it, then, the entrance onto the world stage of otherworld entities which at once changed men's relationship to themselves and their world, and gave them conceptual abilities far beyond that of, say Homo erectus, finally allowing them to make cave paintings and atom bombs? Can we shuffle responsibility for these travesties onto another race from another world, as Fort has, or blame some clouding force separating ourselves from our ancient wisdom as originating off world, like Shaver puts forth? Because to me, that's all these theories are in the end - procrastination and bleak avoidance of our own responsibilities. Our world is shit - it must be the hidden alien's fault. It seems more likely to me that the mysterious absences and lurking distance of the saucer menace is a safety mechanism on their part. They probably learned better than to venture too close during some period of our history when we were overly hungry. Some people will try eating almost anything, you know. Especially fish.
