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From: Stephen Bassett <SGBList2@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:08:17 EDT
Fwd Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:20:16 -0400
Subject: Re: Possibilities


>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:25:14 -0700
>From: Judith Dale <judithdale@earthlink.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Possibilities

>I've been reading all UFO UpDate posts as they hit my email.
>Except in a very few instances, I see the same old nitpicking go
>on and on. I came across these quotes recently:

>"The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical
>science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly
>established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted
>in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.. Our
>future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."
>                           - physicist Albert. A. Michelson, 1894

>and:

>"..so many centuries after the Creation it is unlikely that
>anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value."
>                      - committee advising Ferdinand and Isabella
>                         regarding Columbus' proposal, 1486

>Just thought I'd pass them along, perhaps as a reminder that; 1)
>we don't know everything, and 2) Let's not allow our eyes to be
>blinded by what we think we know exists, or is possible.

>Whilst some nitpick, the barn still burns and the sightings continue.

>My thanks to all who persist in their research to discover the
>truth, present their findings, and don't just spin their wheels
>debating for the sake of debate.


Judith,

So very nicely stated.  Science, like politics, is only just
emerging from thousands of years of male dominance and all that
accompanied it - the arrogance of certainty, abuses of  power,
territoriality, win-lose, zero sum, greed, pride, envy, secrecy,
and above all, control.

The 50-year study of UFO/ET phenomena, coming as it has in the
middle of a profound transition away from male dominance shows
both signs of the old as well as the new.  The influence of
women and their collective world view on both science and
politics is mitigating against the toxic downside of the old
order now passing into history.

We not only don't know everything, we don't even know the
outlines of what we don't know.

As to the larger picture to which you allude: the UFO/ET
research and activist community will either come together in a
more focused coalition, circumscribed by comity, tolerance,
cooperation and mutual support, or, all its efforts and
contributions will be swept away by the state as the government
moves to assert its privileges and control in a post-disclosure,
post-paradigm world.

The greatest event in human history will become just another
spun agenda of our military-industrial complex, the world's
citizens just spectators to be entertained with post-paradigm
propaganda, the UFO/ET researchers and activists just buzzing
flies about the head of an awakened beast to be brushed aside or
expunged.

There will be no true citizen-government partnership regarding
the extraterrestrial presence until we exert collective action
in our common interests.

Be assured that agent provocateurs are able and ready to prevent
such a coalition from forming and ensure that all policies, laws
and acts regarding extraterrestrials are influenced only by
unelected careerists inside the stone block buildings along the
Potomac River.

Regards,

Stephen Bassett