By oversight I meant the general legislative function rather than the committee. To me Big Tech versus Old Aerospace is like watching King Kong battle Godzilla. It’s entertaining, but no matter who wins Tokyo is going to be rubble. This struggle is about who controls the goodies, in other words money and power. How do we know Big Tech wi…
By oversight I meant the general legislative function rather than the committee. To me Big Tech versus Old Aerospace is like watching King Kong battle Godzilla. It’s entertaining, but no matter who wins Tokyo is going to be rubble. This struggle is about who controls the goodies, in other words money and power. How do we know Big Tech will be any less possessive of information than Big Aerospace? I don’t see a reason to believe they would be. That’s why we can’t depend on the executive branch to police itself, any more than we can depend on AARO to investigate what the DoD has covered up for decades. Congress as an institution (and yes, perhaps especially the Gang of Eight) has been sidelined, or sidelined itself (through passing the buck and looking for contributors’ bucks) by not demanding accountability and transparency from the DoD, IC, and DoE on UAP. The institutional authority of Congress has been eroded and undermined. To restore it, the initiative must come from Congress itself. They must investigate and take action. Waiting on the executive to be given the truth on a silver platter is to sanction a relationship of subordination and dependency. I think this is unhealthy. A bird has to flap its own wings (speaking of Twitter 😆).
Fair enough. We’ll leave it at ‘to be determined’. I’m cautiously optimistic with the incoming cabinet members. If nothing comes from the new administration post-investigation, I’m going to assume there are some seriously disturbing aspects to the truth which might actually destabilize society in a real way, controlled disclosure or not.
I always assumed that the truth, even to the extent that it could be revealed, would be destabilizing, both philosophically and culturally. Somber, as Lue put it. But it’s not easy to infer who or what they would be protecting from being disturbed by continuing to conceal that truth.
By oversight I meant the general legislative function rather than the committee. To me Big Tech versus Old Aerospace is like watching King Kong battle Godzilla. It’s entertaining, but no matter who wins Tokyo is going to be rubble. This struggle is about who controls the goodies, in other words money and power. How do we know Big Tech will be any less possessive of information than Big Aerospace? I don’t see a reason to believe they would be. That’s why we can’t depend on the executive branch to police itself, any more than we can depend on AARO to investigate what the DoD has covered up for decades. Congress as an institution (and yes, perhaps especially the Gang of Eight) has been sidelined, or sidelined itself (through passing the buck and looking for contributors’ bucks) by not demanding accountability and transparency from the DoD, IC, and DoE on UAP. The institutional authority of Congress has been eroded and undermined. To restore it, the initiative must come from Congress itself. They must investigate and take action. Waiting on the executive to be given the truth on a silver platter is to sanction a relationship of subordination and dependency. I think this is unhealthy. A bird has to flap its own wings (speaking of Twitter 😆).
Fair enough. We’ll leave it at ‘to be determined’. I’m cautiously optimistic with the incoming cabinet members. If nothing comes from the new administration post-investigation, I’m going to assume there are some seriously disturbing aspects to the truth which might actually destabilize society in a real way, controlled disclosure or not.
I always assumed that the truth, even to the extent that it could be revealed, would be destabilizing, both philosophically and culturally. Somber, as Lue put it. But it’s not easy to infer who or what they would be protecting from being disturbed by continuing to conceal that truth.