SURFING: That perhaps the aliens have
not revealed themselves directly to us
so as not to affect our natural course?
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MAYNARD: Truthfully, I am not sure if
our government --or the aliens-- are the
cause for the non-disclosure at this
point, although personally I feel that
the former is the stronger possibility.
I firmly believe that if it were up to
the aliens, disclosure would have been
made long ago. Why else would there be
so many open sightings, personal
information from people all over the
world, and near-encounters with aliens?
Also, why would the government work so
hard at denying it?
SURFING: Is it possible that the course
of humanity has now reached a place
where we are supposed to know of their
existence?
MAYNARD: Really now, Theresa, "the
course of humanity!" What course? Other
than our current technology, we have not
progressed very far at all. If it were
not for our technology we might have
thrown ourselves back to the Stone Age,
or had another Dark Age. Remember it was
just a little over a hundred years ago
that we were fighting over the ownership
and freedom of slaves, and we
overwhelmed an indigenous people and
force them, even today, to live as
prisoners of war. We have also fought
two major wars, and I have lost count of
the smaller countries' civil, and
revolutionary conflicts that have been
played out in the last few decades.
Along this line I like the line from
Jurassic Park: "We were so busy playing
god we forgot to ask the most important
question: should we?"
In a way, I think there is a distinct
possibility, as it concerns alien
contact and the disclosure thereof, that
our government, in its interaction
playacting with the alien society forgot
to ask should we?