This is probably the best thing you’ll read this week, or perhaps this entire year: A rather ballsy editorial by Robbie Graham, film researcher & author of the upcoming book Silver Screen Saucers, on why the UFO Disclosure movement is either defunct, or should be regarded as such by anyone interested in moving forward in our understanding of the phenomenon, instead of just maintaining a subordinate attitude toward government officialdom, in hope that if we yell long & loud enough, they might finally share with us the secrets about UFOs they may still hold.
But what if, as Robbie and several others in the research community have already asked, the only thing governments are keeping away from us, is their complete incapacity to make heads or tails about what UFOs really are, and their true interests and/or intentions toward humanity? What if they are only hiding their own ignorance and insecurity toward a phenomenon to which they have absolutely no control of?
The ultimate irony of the Disclosure movement is that it deeply distrusts officialdom, while simultaneously looking to officialdom for the truth. And by imagining all answers to the UFO mystery to be out of public reach, deep in the bowels of the national security state, the Disclosure movement actually places power into hands of officialdom, while disempowering the individual.
Robbie delivered this paper during the latest Exopolitics conference in Leeds, but instead of being tarred and feathered by an angry mob, he received a standing ovation! Perhaps it was because people are getting tired of the empty promises delivered by the leaders of the Disclosure movement, who for the past 15 years or so keep hammering on how ‘the Truth’ is just around the corner, and how soon we’ll all be enjoying free energy in a peaceful planet which has finally been admitted in the Galactic Federation –Stephen Bassett was also a speaker in that event, and in contrast he received a lukewarm applause after his presentation.
But it’s not that Robbie is poo-pooing *everything* that the Exopolitics movement has tried to accomplish. On the contrary, he acknowledges the efforts of “Bassett and others [who] undoubtedly have brought the UFO phenomenon (whatever it might represent) to the attention of many thousands of people around the world who previously were indifferent to the issue.”
What does concern me, however, is that Disclosure has become the focus of the UFO community, its alluring offer of a fast track to UFO truth marginalising the more esoteric approaches to the phenomena. In short, in the age of Disclosure and Exopolitics, the pursuit of UFO truth is political, rather than mystical. If the day ever comes when humanity can claim an understanding of the UFO phenomenon, I’m very confident that politics will have played almost no role in this enlightenment.
It has to be said that, not too long ago, Robbie’s attitude toward Disclosure was somewhat different, and he even tried to use his blog Silver Screen Saucers as a platform to support the Exopolitics activism. It was in fact Robbie the one who convinced me to join in the Disclosure Petition, that Stephen Bassett had launched on the We the People White House webpage in 2011 —and we all know how well THAT turned out, don’t we?
When I asked Robbie via e-mail when he started to change his mind about Disclosure and why, this was his response:
I’m not really sure I ‘changed my mind’ about Disclosure so much as my mind inevitably moved on from it (as you predicted it would!). As individuals, our minds are all ‘wired’ a certain way — we’re each inclined to certain modes of thought. I’m a left-brainer. The nuts-and-bolts, political route to UFO ‘truth’ held natural appeal for me. But, as you know, a truly open-minded approach to UFO studies demands weighty input from the right brain. Indeed, for many in this field, the right-brained approach is the natural one.
Obviously, my latest piece is not objectively ‘correct’ or ‘true’ — it’s simply an opinion piece. It’s where I ‘am’ right now, sort of. But I’m learning that where I am right now is probably very far from I’ll be a year or even six months from now. So read it lightly. If it resonates with anyone else, cool. If it annoys people, that’s cool, too, and I’d encourage those latter folk to ask themselves why they feel provoked and to listen carefully to their inner voice for an honest reply.
I certainly hope that Robbie’s op-ed kickstarts a much-needed discussion in the community. Because IMO it’s high time we recognize what the evidence we’ve already gathered in the last 67 years or so seems to point at: That the UFO phenomenon doesn’t show a particular interest in our quaint forms of governmental structures, and instead of the iconical saucer landing on the White House lawn, what in fact seems to be happening is a ‘Grassroots’ type of Contact; as such, the Paradigm change ought to come from the bottom-up, instead of waiting to be sanctioned by the higher-ups, as the Disclosure movement is expecting.
It’s time to cut the middleman out of the equation, and for each and everyone of us to do our own heavy-lifting; not just wait for the answers to be handed down to us by professional liars.
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