True, the human greed and desire for power were always the driving forces. But nothing stays still in this world, everything evolves and changes,. Today’s scientists don’t have the same attitude towards science as during Pythagoras times. Today’s attitude to Olympics and their purpose is almost entirely different from that in Greek times. Football has become fully blown business, not some nobble game. And although everything evolves continuously, in analogue fashion, we can identify certain stages of this progression, and some of them are happening in front of our very eyes right now – every area of our lives is being commercialized and “profit driven”, whether it is a school, a hospital, doctor’s surgery, hospice for dying people, police or ambulance service – it must first and foremost make profit, profitability became an universal bench-mark for everything worth our consideration, and anything that falls outside this (such as stupid, useless and pointless scientific missions to the moon) we should not even consider.

Human curiosity and free-thinking is being dumbed down, and it seems to me that this is quite a recent, distinct stage in human evolution, which Orwell documented so well. Democracy seems to be transformed into a sophisticated slavery – where slaves are responsible for enslaving themselves, accept it and take full responsibility for it. Dumbing down is good for the economy, the more narrow-minded a person, the more submissive and acceptive he will be, creative, caring and innovative doctor is just a burden on surgery’s or hospital finances – what those institutions need is a doctor who can follow the well established processes at the minimum cost.

But enuf of this rant. My main “no point in making points” point is that every area of our lives is affected by this commercialisation, and I absolutely see no reason why UFO should/would be excluded. Although obviously the link with UFOs is more subtle, not directly linked to “profitability”, politics, democracy, establishment or any mad conspiracy theories. I think two main reasons why UFOs get “affected” are: dumbing down and the fact that, due to commercialisation, anything that is not directly related to monetary value simply disappears from the field of personal interest of more and more people. Reading FSR magazine I got the impression that there are less sightings and UFO related experiences than in the, say, 60s. Is it because aliens lost interest in us? Or is it because people lost interest in them? It is perfectly possible that UFOs sightings are just not reported as often as before, for a fear of ridicule and worse, and because there is no money in it. It is not a topic of interest to respectable news media which can loose its profits as a result, and it is not in interest of Government for their subjects to be distracted and perhaps awakened from their materialistic and very down to earth tax-paying reality. Currently politicians openly laugh in our faces knowing that masses will helplessly resign to it, because they feel powerless to change anything, they are just resigned to the fact that things are as they are and always have been that way and always will be. Imagine a spark of hope that some “external” force or influence can actually help human kind to “straighten things up”. This could cause global upheaval, disorder and revolutions, even if such force didn’t actually exist – humans are perfectly capable to empower themselves on hope alone. So perhaps that is why any trace of potential alien visit, however vague and inconclusive, is better kept from public awareness, just like one should never keep matches close to the fire.

I liked “The Day the Earth Stood Still” film for this very reason, that, IMHO, it illustrates very well our current attitude to any potential alien being: keep it secret and subject it to torture rather than open dialogue, because the being is obviously more powerful and evolved than us. Duh! It is also a good analogy for the current state of our democratic system: the real, open dialogue between politicians and masses can only take place when masses are sufficiently ignorant and feeling hopelessly powerless. But that’s another rant….