Scenario planning can help us understand the potential implications of open contact and mitigate the risks of massive disruption so that humanity benefits.
Much of the solutions envisaged for today's problems continue to be classic Machiavelian, Real Politik perspectives based on external forms of power through manipulation of matter, energy, and information crunching. Civilians that have ethically enhancing contacts must find a more effective way to share their perspectives and have to be heard. But in a tough, competitive world, kindness is as much a taboo as airy fairy-sounding space brother contacting and "woo." So, the issue of how a serious, responsible, exo-aware, civilian community can bring an enlightening pro-disclosure agenda to the table relates to transmitting in a credible way that the evolution of human consciousness and of the species is desirable and possible. And we need to learn show that the transmission of this essential pillar of change can be palatably incorporated into modern political, scientific, and academic institutions... with objectivity and coherence of Man's essential nature which supersedes transhumanist or AI dependence.
So, I think that we need to bring these worldview-shifting issues in spirituality and metaphysics (applicable to science and politics) beyond the purview and silent special interest of our personal lives. To find a way to do it in a practical, political sense; in fact as a greater reality with life consequences.
The contact, disclosure, and exo-diplomatic aware community has to find a way to make its quality core messages necessary for inclusion in the conversations that would lead to national and international decision-making moves. We need to participate and be more outspoken and also to publicly resist the excessive use of the threat narrative (which is a repetition of a physicalist, competitive, predatorial mindset amidst a duality-enshrined 3D consciousness).
Voices like Carolyn's must be heard so that more comprehensive assessments are also taken into account and become part of the main, formal conversation illustrating politicians, religious moderates, and the military. Otherwise, in a world in which democracies are failing due to false manipulative information exacerbating tribal nationalism and ethnocentric feelings over facts, pluralism, respect for nature, all life, and reason, the shift necessary to digest what a grand cosmic (post spacetime-limited) proposal means can also fail. And it could also fail if we normalize through cynicism the abuse of power due to an increase in impunity as we move into an era of grave ecological and human crises due to our anti ecological stubbornness. So, there really is no time to waste. The meaning of a complex presence of "alter humans" (the others connected with us as One) must be faced and properly digested without simplistic frameworks. Otherwise, (if we simply allow ourselves to be mired in simplistic, old-world solutions to completely new problems) important issues like those raised by serious thinkers like Carolyn may no longer be recognized in their proper perspective and even the disclosure of an ET-multidimensional presence could become trivial in a world where almost everyone is distracted by entertainment, disinformation, identity wars, fear, materialism, and corruption.
So, even if the ET-multidimensional presence were officially acknowledged, or made its presence inescapable to a majority of the human population, its importance could be diluted if everyone is swamped by attractive, time-consuming attention grabbing stimuli while careful discernment becomes "boring" as - simultaneously - "feeling good", "feeling safe" "eating," and "belonging to a (limited) reference group"... of course, in competition with other such groups, become what really matters.
Thank you Giorgio for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response. I am glad there are others who see the value, nay--necessity, of having serious discussion on how to cross the bridge from where we are today to our galactic future.
Much of the solutions envisaged for today's problems continue to be classic Machiavelian, Real Politik perspectives based on external forms of power through manipulation of matter, energy, and information crunching. Civilians that have ethically enhancing contacts must find a more effective way to share their perspectives and have to be heard. But in a tough, competitive world, kindness is as much a taboo as airy fairy-sounding space brother contacting and "woo." So, the issue of how a serious, responsible, exo-aware, civilian community can bring an enlightening pro-disclosure agenda to the table relates to transmitting in a credible way that the evolution of human consciousness and of the species is desirable and possible. And we need to learn show that the transmission of this essential pillar of change can be palatably incorporated into modern political, scientific, and academic institutions... with objectivity and coherence of Man's essential nature which supersedes transhumanist or AI dependence.
So, I think that we need to bring these worldview-shifting issues in spirituality and metaphysics (applicable to science and politics) beyond the purview and silent special interest of our personal lives. To find a way to do it in a practical, political sense; in fact as a greater reality with life consequences.
The contact, disclosure, and exo-diplomatic aware community has to find a way to make its quality core messages necessary for inclusion in the conversations that would lead to national and international decision-making moves. We need to participate and be more outspoken and also to publicly resist the excessive use of the threat narrative (which is a repetition of a physicalist, competitive, predatorial mindset amidst a duality-enshrined 3D consciousness).
Voices like Carolyn's must be heard so that more comprehensive assessments are also taken into account and become part of the main, formal conversation illustrating politicians, religious moderates, and the military. Otherwise, in a world in which democracies are failing due to false manipulative information exacerbating tribal nationalism and ethnocentric feelings over facts, pluralism, respect for nature, all life, and reason, the shift necessary to digest what a grand cosmic (post spacetime-limited) proposal means can also fail. And it could also fail if we normalize through cynicism the abuse of power due to an increase in impunity as we move into an era of grave ecological and human crises due to our anti ecological stubbornness. So, there really is no time to waste. The meaning of a complex presence of "alter humans" (the others connected with us as One) must be faced and properly digested without simplistic frameworks. Otherwise, (if we simply allow ourselves to be mired in simplistic, old-world solutions to completely new problems) important issues like those raised by serious thinkers like Carolyn may no longer be recognized in their proper perspective and even the disclosure of an ET-multidimensional presence could become trivial in a world where almost everyone is distracted by entertainment, disinformation, identity wars, fear, materialism, and corruption.
So, even if the ET-multidimensional presence were officially acknowledged, or made its presence inescapable to a majority of the human population, its importance could be diluted if everyone is swamped by attractive, time-consuming attention grabbing stimuli while careful discernment becomes "boring" as - simultaneously - "feeling good", "feeling safe" "eating," and "belonging to a (limited) reference group"... of course, in competition with other such groups, become what really matters.
Giorgio Piacenza
Thank you Giorgio for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response. I am glad there are others who see the value, nay--necessity, of having serious discussion on how to cross the bridge from where we are today to our galactic future.