COSMIC LORE & THE SCIENCE MONOLITH
The analysis of cosmological assumptions can help us recognize the power of stories to compel and enchant vast audiences. The widespread belief in modern cosmological stories is essential for maintaining the state and its corporate-industrial partners in power. Such stories make up the scriptures for a state religion. Space exploration stories reassert and reaffirm state power continuously and make sure that present and future generations are boxed in a phantasmagoric mythology. People have been slowly groomed to believe these stories gleefully, a feat which requires very low standards of evidence. In fact, we can say that belief itself is all the evidence that is often required. Do you believe this computer generated image and the storyline that a space agency presented? Well, that is good enough evidence for them. An unyielding gullibility renders space believers into total malleability. However, what is remarkable is that space believers can be fully functional and even critical thinkers regarding other themes.
Another key pattern in official colonial cosmological stories is the notion that there is one science and that individuals can be declared a scientist without elaborating on further contextual and epistemological details. As I mentioned earlier, these details are essential for being able to assess any claim of fact. During my time as a student in anthropology, we were expected to account for power dynamics surrounding any material we analyze. Such details should disclose:
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- Who is saying what?
- Who is paying for them to say it?
- What theoretical paradigm are they using?
- What is their epistemological background?
- In short, how do they know that they know what they are presenting?
- Moreover, what are the limits of what they present, and how aware are they of those limits?
INTERGENERATIONAL EXPLOITATION
Skipping contextual details and presenting official cosmological positions as ironclad statements of scientific consensus instead of opinion and conjecture is a trick that benefits those with the power to control these stories. They exploit the fictional perception of their authority and power to spread various nonsensical beliefs that those under their spell never dare to question. Cosmological control agencies have drawn on ancient motifs to infuse their stories with power. In the early twentieth century, mass marketing and propaganda techniques started taking over the world. They spread far beyond the aim of selling useful products, becoming the standard weapon of nationalist indoctrination and political campaigning. In simple terms, this meant that the world would be very soon taken over by liars with enough funds to promote their ideas and force unsuspecting people to accept them.
Ancient names and motifs played an important role in this longterm, intergenerational indoctrination process. A prime example is what NASA called the Apollo missions. The elements that are quite clearly brought together in this idea is the Greek god Apollo, which had many characteristics and representations in over more than 2500 years of history. And the Catholic notion of mission, which is a core principle of colonialist epistemology and practice. The fact that these concepts do not go together makes sense from a doublethink and newspeak perspective.
From the perspective of the state’s myth-makers, contradictory notions should be promoted together to infuse nonsense in the minds of believers. Such missions exist for the sole purpose of convincing people from other cosmological traditions to give up on what they’ve believed for millennia. In other words, they could be thought of as conversion tales that seek to erase ancient and indigenous cosmologies with state-sponsored garbage mythologies.
DOGMA, AUTHORITY & GUILT
Missionaries and other proselytizers can devote whole lives to trying to turn others into believers of their own beliefs. The idea of anyone else having an independent outlook never crosses their minds. The intention is to homogenize the whole world. They already know better, that their path is the only path and the best one, and they try to save others from themselves. From the perspective of an outlook that values freewill, proselytizing seems completely insane. For self-ascribed missionaries, however, it is the work of God. Their activities are often powered by nonsensical, made up beliefs.
For instance, Mormons believe that once every single person in the whole world has at least heard about their religion, Jesus will come back to save the world. It all depends on their work, not on Jesus’ or God’s will. This inspires teenagers who were born in their system to go to the farthest places with a scam religion they must push onto others. Their approach for convincing you that they are right is quite simple. When I lived in Salt Lake City, teenage male missionaries often knocked on my door unannounced and uninvited and tried to persuade me to join their religion.
The whole interaction would always boil down to them giving me their book, and asking me to ask God about Mormonism to get an answer. Presumably, I would pray and God should tell me that yes, Mormonism was the only true religion in the world. That should be enough to convince me that everything in their books was the incontestable and ultimate truth. If I ever doubted anything they claimed, it would be considered my fault. Peer-pressure alone, and not logic, would eventually force me to submit to loads of nonsense. This trick, that is, turning a doctrine’s logical inconsistencies into the critical audience’s fault, is a type of guilt-tripping that reinforces fictional authority and collective thinking through peer-pressure. The reasons why individuals’ imaginations become tied to colonial cosmological lore can be particular to each case.
Religious people who hold on to dogmas and refuse to use logic to question them might never come across or even conceive the level of epistemological questioning that I would expect from critical thinkers as an anthropologist with my particular background. Yet, it is beyond the scope of this work to attempt to explain all the reasons why people might passively submit to religious and cosmological nonsense. We can say that a deep set feeling of submission to authority and inferiority play a key role on forging such passivity. Most importantly, space missions are just like religious missions. That is, they promote, above all, the state and its politicians with unverifiable just-so pronouncements. These become dogmas that are supported with various fictions in the believer’s mind. Once fully committed and rendered unable to question phony evidence, believers eventually abandon their own comparative and critical thinking abilities. With time, an emotional connection develops, making so that freeing themselves from the logics of the colonial cosmology becomes almost impossible.
CO-OPTING ANTIQUITY
Ancient names and symbols have often been employed in order to recruit and convert more people, following the typical Bernays-style public relations promotional campaign. Not-so-secret societies also use ancient symbols for recruitment and indoctrination purposes. They appear in their literature, halls, lodges, and ranks and files. Such societies have functioned as links between the modern state, the industry and the Catholic church. Intelligence and space agencies developed as mind control programs for constantly reinforcing the fiction that states are progressing indefinitely and working hard for the people they actually exploit. An ignorant public is easily swayed. Yet, remarkably, there are people who will always question.
There are also people behind the scenes who know the truth about our world and want it to come out. Space exploration tales create a gigantic public distraction, and this creates a considerable strategic advantage for investigators who know the truth beyond the veil of the colonial cosmology. As the rest of the world is distracted and rewarded with fictions, they can quietly and calmly investigate the truth and keep it within close circles. Others, like us, must work with the public evidence. This book is just a journey through the evidence. We should be aware that everyone, including the author here, is prone to settling for fiction depending on the situation. I am advocating through this investigation the assessment of our convictions and the parsing of fiction from truth, which each person should do on their own.
