What Could be Such a Devastating, Life Altering Secret That'd Stop Disclosure? Aliens/Humanity/God , page 1

There will be NO change in the way the world is run or peopled in my opinion.
If the Governments of the world were to disclose the fact that there are aliens or even IF an alien was to come down to Earth and say "Hi", people would stare in wonder.

A lot of this reply will be talking in a good alien point of view.

I also know that religeon is changing to believe that life exists outside this world , even Islam is saying they will try to 'convert' aliens to it.
But I think that any religeon will treat any visitation with anxiety , like the people will at first, then they will relax when the aliens intentions become clear ( providing the intentions are good, Bad intentions will spark the rebellion of Man), but we won't know for quite a while unless the aliens attack us openly.

I also know that in the event of disclosure or visitation that there are some people who will commit suicide purely out of fear of the unknown. It will go against what they have learned or think so severely that they will have no recourse other than to kill themselves.

People have been 'programmed' by the media , films, TV and books that ALL aliens are bad and want to eat us or steal our souls, but if people actually realised that the Earth is NOT the centre of the universe and that the Universe is not just the solar system and understand that it is near infinite and ancient then possibly there is life out there and it may come here.

People , scratch that , a person can be quite smart, but get one wrong mentality in a crowd and watch someone whose scared and runs away turn the crowd into a panicing mob.
Hence the term 'sheeple'.

If the Government were to disclose the fact that aliens are here and have been a while people would start to ask questions , of why wheren't we told?, what else have you hidden from us? and such other questions.

If people were allowed or the aliens rather allowed to integrate into our culture or field of vision at a pace that isn't too violent then people would be quite calm , in fact they would be excited about meeting a totally different being. Something out of the mundane that it would bring a feeling of anticipation into their lives. Religeon itself would adapt into accepting a new 'gift from God' , a new Brother from the stars.
Of course the aliens probably have they're own beliefs and would probably teach interested Humans , maybe some religeons on Earth are not so different from theirs, Like love for the environment and each other, disregard for material wealth , longing for knowledge etc. or maybe such a new concept that we have ( in our limited capacity here on Earth) no concept or understanding of.
Life would indeed be a challenge should any new information come to the notice of the people , for example ,the 50's , TV became mainstream for those that could afford it, radio was all the communication we had apart from cinema, then there's the late 80's calculators were all the rage, then computers came on the scene, now look at todays world.
New information is assimilated by the masses at a speed the individual can perform best at, some are quick to learn , some are slow, but ALL come to hear about it.
After a while information becomes commonplace, and improvements start to appear, in the case of computers, faster , more efficient, more people using it etc.
Alien contract of disclosure about aliens is the same, if the truth comes out , at first there's a rush both ways , people accepting it, or people rejecting it, then sooner or later both meet in the happy medium of its here to stay.

If aliens were to just appear , then either they are good in which case they are understanding enough to learn about us and our inadequacies and anxieties, and would/ should be compassionate enough to integratetemselves into our 'domain' at a pace to cause the least amount of suffering.

But if the aliens are 'bad' , then mankind would find out soon enough , and most would fight for the right to survive.
some would sell out for the right to live as favoured pets, but if the aliens are bent on total extermination of Man then there isn't much we can do, their technology is far superior to ours , the best Man can do is pollute the world with nuclear weapons to poison the well so to speak., thats providing the aliens don't ( and probably have got already) the technology to render our defences inactive.
After all they've either travelled billions of miles, inter-dimensionally and have the technology to counter-act anything we can throw at them.

The WORST we can hope for is the same type of aliens we have on Earth right now, the ones we call Governments, our leaders bicker , argue and come to arrangements, any Alien being or government would be the same , we'd have the same life as we have now but the World would be so much smaller, there'd be alien 'diplomats' from all sides same as in the U.N and we might get a say .

The BEST scenario is the good aliens arrive and we're all Brothers amongst the stars , building hope and love and helping each other better ourselves.
Some can or are allowed offworld to learn the new ways, new 'holiday' destinations are opened , technology is released to help Mankind help itself on a non-violent level ( i.e no weapons tech) but non-polluting power sources are made available . The only ones hurting then are the ones that got greedy and didn't care about the environment we live in. but they're a minority and part of the 'collateral' damage caused by the aliens arrival.

But no matter whether its disclosure , or aliens landing in everyone's front lawn , one constant remains, the World will NEVER be the same again, a new dawn will come when Mankind finally realises that the Earth is no longer the centre of the Universe and it is no longer flat and that Man is NOT ALONE .

Hopeful waffling aside .

If the Governments were to disclose the fact that aliens are either here or on their way for friendship then mankind would at first be highly sceptical of both the information and the government, If disclosure happened that same time as a lot of alien activity then people would ,I think, understand that the governments intention was to acclimatise the people to the fact that aliens exist, less people would be lost through suicide.

However if the aliens were bad , and disclosure told us that then people would appreciate the choice of either going down fighting or lying down and going to sleep with a lot of pills and booze. If the governments said that the aliens technology ,after careful study ISN'T as sturdy as everyone would believe and that a victory is achieavable but with a huge cost , then people would take up arms and many would die happy, knowing they tried to make a difference to the world .
People would prefer the choice, and many would choose to know if they at least had a chance .
If the govenment disclosed any facts about aliens , then people again have the choice to want to know , or not to know or ignore any information until it is televised, then it becomes an inescapable fact.

Bring on disclosure, People might actually be surprised and would want to know the truth for once. no BS , or beating about the bush , so for once politicians , for once do something amazing, tell the truth, bite the bullet and be honest with the people of the Earth, we all have a say, its is after all our lives and our choices that put you in your current poistion.
Stop treating the public as mindless , but as inidividuals as smart as you.

Edited for tea break

[edit on 30/1/09 by DataWraith]

I think you brought up many of the reasons that they fear they couldn't tell us everything now. A big part of the secrecy agenda is trying to save face now i think. They have been hiding things from us for so long now that they don't know how they would ever begin to disclose anything without criminalizing themselves, afterall, the things they have been lying to us about for all these years was funded with tax dollars (NASA) so how to disclose without making themselves targets for trials is a huge problem. The mountain of lies would come crumbling down, Billions of dollars would be taken away from their program, and many individuals would go to jail.
Here's some things to think about from the Skipper, who has put way more thought into the issue than I have, and sums the situation up better tan I ever could.

Yes I believe that advanced intelligent life other than our own exists. The logic and math of it is just simply inescapable. But, while I don't believe this is the case, let's just presume for the sake of argument here that there actually has not been any contact by others in our greater environment with any humans here on Earth. If so, they may be a number of reasons and not all having to do with us. Still we might consider that it may be because we are regarded as too juvenile and immature as we Earth humans tend to think of those terms and especially in relation to the possibly more advanced and sophisticated social development level of other older races that we may eventually have to deal with. In other words, some truth here about ourselves could be a bit painful.
After all, we are too often a collection of myopically self focussed Earth civilizations and we've spent thousands of years habituated to believe that we are alone in this environment. Also, we are apparently also habituated to the believe that we are the top species in our environment. We've also over and over again historically shown ourselves too often to be intolerant and dismissive of differences in others right down to the most ridiculously small cosmetic shallow details. Worse, that's how we act just among ourselves and one can only imagine how we might react to real significant differences in really different others. Let's face it, too many of us apparently were not listening when prophets among us have down through time tried to teach us to exercise more tolerance.

The excuse for public consumption would no doubt be that secrecy was for our own good and to prevent contagious panic but the deeper underlying reason would more than likely be that leaders were simply stalling trying to see and manipulate their way through to an advantage with alien technology being the likely goal in this particular scenario.
There would no doubt quickly be an open military and/or intelligence response intended to prevent and/or contain such an event and any effected by it as though it was a contagion. Leaders never trust populations with large scale impact knowledge because it rarely means anything beneficial or profitable for them personally. In other words, it is too often our myopic self interest that rules us.
Such a scenario in the absence of overwhelming proof of it is so far beyond the "perceived" norm that disbelief is of course going to be the usual response and now regarded as normal. Further, population psychology is also heavily manipulated in this direction both by secrecy intent but also by population self acceptance. Do any of you doubt that any attempt to bring any acceptable level of proof into a public alien contact scenario would not bring on the immediate action and full immense resources of the control addicts into play trying to contain and isolate the "problem?" Obviously any responsible alien interests considering contact with Earth planet wide populations would be well aware of this and have to act accordingly and with careful restraint.

Here's where it get's to the point:

Their great fear is not aliens demonstrating obvious restraint in dealing with we Earth humans but the public here becoming too knowledgeable of this and then in turn of their great long standing deceptions. The latter gives the former a negative quality that could potentially spark a reactive flame of blame and a heads rolling scenario playing out here on Earth. At this stage, I have no doubt that it is the fear and avoidance of this scenario's potential that is the primary impetus for continued secrecy, not any alien evidence itself.

some more to ponder on:

Yes, the secrecy agenda has aggressively initiated and reinforced the current ridiculous planetary secrecy problem but we have all out here in the public facilitated it by our past abdication of involvement and responsibility in our own space exploration programs. We of course left it all up to the "experts" which is just another more palatable way of saying we didn't want to deal with such complexity ourselves and tax our poor brains. As a result, ignorance and myopic obsessiveness reigns supreme on both sides of an ever widening schism because we as a people on both sides are stuck on avoidance, gratification and power that corrupts depending or where you are located in this matter.

What must be understood is that change and a new age for Earth humanity is irrevocably and relentlessly approaching. It takes no seer or prophet to see this, only an open mind and a little common sense logic and reason. It is driven not by this work but rather this work is driven by it. At its cutting edge it is driven by the aggressive grasping for answers and advanced technology primarily at the secrecy agenda end that relentless draws us all faster and faster into interaction with the greater more complex environment that we seem by our actions to prefer to remain ignorant of. The secrecy types are thoroughly addicted to this grasping and so there is not the slightest chance that this it will voluntarily abate and so the advancement of and what comes is relentless and unavoidable for us all.

To adequately adjust to and operate in this new (to us) greater and more complex environment will require the abandonment of some of our past reliance on pretense and essentially a new Earth human paradigm shift. Adjustment will require the closing of this fore mentioned schism primarily via the elimination of ignorance and pretense on both sides and the revealing of some hard truths. However, change happens at different speeds for different people. For the general public this happens via gradually growing awareness of greater truths perhaps not previously thought possible and coming to grips with our far too passive and responsible role in this. For the myopically self focussed secrecy types this happens via gradual realization that their current path of manipulation and isolation is seriously flawed and not conducive to their own long term meaningful survival.

Because they congratulate themselves on being in the "know" and so easily manipulating you and I with our cooperation as not nearly so bright types, they've long ago come to believe their own press (much like rock stars) and have convinced themselves that they have a good handle on things. Consequently it is much harder for them to see the error of their ways and the trap that they have dug for themselves and make a turn around. Such early adjustments are conducive to future adaptability.

As a group they are far to addicted to their past historical ways to voluntarily alter course within their ranks. That is where this evidence record and its impact comes into the picture. Yes the growing evidence certainly spreads growing awareness among the public and particularly among the more independent thinkers out here.

The Skipper has thought about every angle on this, and I consider him an expert on the Secrecy Agenda. Unfortunately for us, we have probably helped them quite a bit.