On the UFO thing: As mass media is used with greater sophistication (and central coordination) to manipulate public opinion and guide behaviour, it will seem to grow ever more crazy and fantastical, as if reality were suddenly assuming the character of B-movie sci-fi plots.
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Corona was also reported in this way early on, like a zombie mass death freak supervirus, and for many even a year’s experience with this rather banal pathogen has not brought them back to earth.
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The deeper purpose is perhaps to cultivate a kind of ‚information aesthetic‘, in which increasingly bizarre and seemingly impossible happenings are more & more included in reality, the universe behaves in unexpected magical ways ...
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... and the messengers of these strange, fantastic otherwise inaccessible truths are a bunch of government bureaucrats and air-headed blonde news anchors.
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I haven't seen an appealing air-headed blonde news anchor in quite some time. Petra Gerster just doesn't do it for me.
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