Last Straw

Appar­ently there’s a big event on the hori­zon. A group of ali­ens call­ing them­selves the Galactic Fed­er­a­tion of Light are com­ing to earth on the 14^th of Octo­ber, in a pre­lude to sav­ing us from the shit heads who cur­rently run the place.

The mes­sage addresses “all people of earth” but then goes on to say “it shall be in the south of your hemi­sphere and it shall scan over many of your states … We give to you the name of Alabama.” So either it addresses all people of earth but then goes on to ignore them and speak to just the Amer­ic­ans (those in the south­ern part of the north­ern hemi­sphere), or the event is to be in the South­ern Hemi­sphere and someone got their geo­graphy screwed up because Alabama ain’t in the South­ern Hemisphere.

I’m pick­ing the earlier; that Blos­som, our mes­sen­ger, is Amer­ican and it’s a simple eth­no­cen­tric mis­take. This is prob­ably the same reason the alien guy in the back­ground of the video is a blond white dude. Blos­som and friends are pre­sum­ably white Americans.

If these ali­ens have mastered inter­galactic space travel you’d think they would have mastered a little plain Eng­lish. “We give to you the name of Alabama”? They could have brushed up on their gram­mar a little too: “Author­it­ies will be intrud­ing into ‘our’ atmo­spher­ics that sur­round our ship.” “We do not come to destruct.”

And where’re the trans­la­tions? English-only seems a little short-sighted, if not plain uneth­ical com­ing from such eth­ical beings.

Then there’s the fore­warn­ing and demon­isa­tion of those who may be scep­tical, a feather out of the cap of reli­gion. And we all know why reli­gions do that. Why would such ali­ens even feel the need to men­tion this? Self doubt? It’s no skin off their nose if people are scep­tical, as “a craft of great size shall be vis­ible … for all to see.”

Lastly, the mes­sage comes from someone called ‘Blos­som Goodchild.’

As much as I would dearly love for there to be peace­ful ali­ens who come to save the day, wish­ing it doesn’t make it so.

I don’t blame people for clutch­ing at this sort of thing. They think, as I think, that human­ity has infin­itely more poten­tial than it’s cur­rently demon­strat­ing. Essen­tially they’re search­ing for out­ward answers as to why we’ve fucked it up so badly; why we’re steer­ing down the bar­rel of plan­et­ary dev­ast­a­tion and World War III. They don’t want to believe that we could be the mas­ters of our own destruction.

It may also have some­thing to do with many of us com­ing to believe in the dicho­tomy of good and evil; that there are good people and that there are evil people. People don’t want to believe they’re evil so this inev­it­ably leads one to ques­tion how the evil people got here and what we can do about them. Thus enter the alien super hero.

Search­ing for out­ward answers is a huge mis­take in my opin­ion. Humans are neither good nor bad but have the capa­city for both. Whether we’re destined for brighter things or an evol­u­tion­ary dead end is unknown but it cer­tainly seems we have the capa­city to have a say in the mat­ter. Blam­ing ali­ens, or hedging bets on ali­ens in shin­ing armer, or simply gambling on an after­life (as reli­gions do) dis­tracts one from doing what we need to do here and now on planet earth.

So, I’ve read this mes­sage from Blos­som Good­child and taken a look at the evid­ence and this is my mes­sage to those who want to believe this stuff: if this event doesn’t take place, don’t dis­count this but remem­ber it as a piece of evid­ence that strongly con­tra­dicts those who pro­fess to know about ali­ens and their inten­tions. And in the mean time go read this piece about con­firm­a­tion bias.