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Why alien abductions are down dramatically
We still believe, we just don’t talk about it anymore. By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie.
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I recall watching a TV program talking about movies and how the fears of society from the last few eras affect the big box cinema. It talked how before aliens, there were a great number of religious-related sightings. In the beginning of the twentieth century, the two world wars and cold wars shifted this to invasion and alien fears. Once the cold war ended, with no clear enemy, the fear changed to the government. Conspiracy theories and enemies within the authority figures populate many of the movies from the post-cold war era.
There are far more apocalypse movies tho. I think our fear has shifted from "invasion by foreign" transitioning over "virus pandemic" and "comet disaster" to "zombie apocalypse".
At least the pandemic or comet collision are somewhat plausible.
More or less... I mean "alien invasion" is equally implausible but it is a manifestation of a real fear of invasion. So from that angle "zombie" apocalypse is somewhat plausible in that there is a real fear of a "mindless horde" e.g. a mob dumbed-down by reality TV elects a reality TV star to be commmander-in-chief of a nuclear arsenal. It's not that far-fetched.
Makes sense. If there's no real abductees then what you see is a product of culture, and really, unless you're counting the Star Wars or Independence Day films, we haven't thought about aliens in a generation or more.
Hi folks. I'm new here. I've been following Dr. Steven Greer (I know, I know), and happened on a YouTube video he posted recently (United Airlines pilot, link posted above). I actually haven't read the Boston Globe article yet, but will do so. I need a sanity check: Is it really outrageous to believe that the Earth may have been visited by other-world beings at some point in its history? If so, do I have to start researching zombies now? Because I really don't get zombies...:/ Thanks for considering.
Until we find evidence of other-world beings capable of crossing interstellar distances? Yes.
Not at all. Unless some particular dogmatic belief you subscribe to is threatened by it. For instance, dogma that holds life sprang into being exactly once, on Earth, and didn't arrive here the way so much else around us has. From elsewhere, else-when. For my money, yes, you could probably get something out of a fuller, broader and deeper consideration of the lore around zombism as well. Just don't ever, even on a dare, agree to see the movie version of World War Z. Stick strictly to the novel.
This might explain it.