(09-29-2015, 02:20 AM)anagogy Wrote:(09-29-2015, 02:15 AM)Billy Wrote: What do people think would happen if irrefutable evidence was given that extraterrestrials exist and that they have been interacting, in a variety of ways, with humanity for a very long time? Maybe I am just seeing things from my perspective, but I feel that while people would initially be shocked, we would learn to deal with it without all hell breaking loose.
Well you're right, of course. People could deal with it. A section of the population would freak out for a while. Then they would adjust.
But the people that suppress evidence of the reality of extraterrestrial life don't really care whether people could accept it or not, they just don't want to deal with a well informed populace that is not easily manipulated via control of resources.
If we could handle it, then why don't the confederation just make themselves known already? I was more criticizing the idea that while the information is suppressed by certain people and groups for their own benefit, the real reason we are kept in the dark is because we wouldn't be able to cope with such a revelation. It's for our own good apparently. If we reach the right level of consciousness as a species, extraterrestrials will gladly reveal themselves, or so the theory goes.