By Alexandra Petri
www.washingtonpost.com5-3-13
I am holding a pamphlet from the Foundation for Extraterrestrial Investigations.
"With every mind that is able to lift the veil of ignorance from their eyes," it proclaims, "the world is one step closer to what is right. There was a time when man believed that frogs were given birth by mud, simply because they were observed to be hopping about from its depths with such avid regularity. We once were sure that the world was flat, and that if one were to stray too far from the center, they would fall into oblivion off its edge. Not too many years past, it was deemed wholly acceptable to enslave a man, woman, or child, for no other reason than the color of their skin. One of the most amazing characteristics of the human race is our ability to evolve. We can evolve not only physically, but even more importantly we can learn to change the way that we think. Unless we feel it advantageous to live our lives within a flattened world where mud spawned frogs hop about the chained and shackled feet of our brothers, then let us not refuse to see the truth of our world as it is. We are not alone. We never have been."
It must be nice to live in this world.
If you believe in conspiracy theories, everything is being taken care of. It is all very orderly and circular, bound up with "petro-dollars" and shadowy agendas.
In this world, the UFO enthusiasts' Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (this week at the National Press Club) was a long-overdue shot of pure truth....
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