Bassoe
Well-known member
My theories, in order of decreasing desirability:
- Technology invented in the security state's black projects and immediately classified and locked away and they're leaking. Or in other words, we're winning. Once the tech becomes common knowledge, our enemies lose. Free energy and raw materials from the asteroid belt and o'neill cylinder lebensraum cheap enough for every group of ideologues to establish their own politically independent city-states. No justification for the prophesied pods-and-bugs hellscape future. And everyone knows exactly who stood to benefit from hiding the technology and was poised to rule the pods-and-bugs hellscape and therefore, who to blame. And with the petrodollar dead as tulip bulbs, they won't be able to buy politicians and military forces to defend themselves.
- Technology invented in the security state's black projects and immediately classified and locked away and it's staying there. All we know is that it's possible and that we're being deliberately kept from it. These two things may very well be enough to bring down the state anyway, as every single geopolitical rival starts their own combination manhattan project/byzantine silkworm heist to independently replicate and/or steal the secret and everyone knows just who's been deliberately keeping us from utopia.
- It's a fake. Sure this'd require blatantly lying under oath, but after Iraq's supposed WMDs, it's not like security state spooks would expect punishment for that. Propaganda to intimidate geopolitical rivals with the possibility that the US might be hiding wunderwaffe and not be as weak as Afghanistan made us look, and to distract domestic conspiracy theorists from everything else going on. This is probably the most plausible explanation.
- Project Beluga or whatever it was called, that conspiracy theory/proposed conspiracy in Wikileaks which was basically Ozymandias' plan from Watchmen, fake an alien invasion. Suddenly the security state's wish list of totalitarianism has a new emergency to justify it. Distinguishable from theory five by the actions taken by the security state, in an actual invasion they'd be sharing their secret tech, building orion drive warships, extra factories and victory gardens, arming the entire population with military-grade weaponry, basically putting the whole planet on a war footing, here, it's the usual. Newsflash, an alien civilization with the capacity to spectroscopically analyze earth's atmosphere from light-years away will already know there's life on earth from the free oxygen being replenished by photosynthesis faster than it can react its way out of the air whether or not the carbon dioxide from our industrial revolution is there or not. If they're the sorts who dispatch Dark Forest preemptive strikes on that degree of information, we should be more industrialized to build generation ships and get breeding populations out of the way, screw earth, it won't last much longer anyway.
- The UFOs are real, but fortunately, they're not as overpowered as they seem as demonstrated by a bunch of crash landings and captured pilots, which allowed us to reverse-engineer the technology. We're not at their level, but we are strong enough to make fighting a Mutually Destructive exchange of RKKVs.
- The UFOs are real but we haven't got any shipwrecks to reverse-engineer or if we have, we can't make sense of them. We don't know what they want, we can't fight them on equal terms and they're drastically more technologically advanced than us.
- The invasion is already here and it's winning. Replacing human labor with robots, mandatory transhumanism, depopulation, technological feudalism, whatever conspiracy floats your boat, they're real but they're not led by humans and their actual objective in attaining world domination is to set up colonial infrastructure. The pedophilia is a cover story, the actual reason why our politicians and oligarchs visit epstein island is for the real conspirators to crawl out their ears and go for a revitalizing swim while soaking up kandrona radiation.