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ACFM Trip 40: UFOs

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Philosophy, News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Should the left care about the existence of aliens? The ACFM gang explore the impact of UFOs on political thought in this Trip. Keir, Jem and Nadia discuss the connections between UFO conspiracies and right-wing thought, why some communists think aliens will bring about world revolution, and whether Fermi’s paradox means we’re not alone, with […]

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0:00.0

This is actually a club. Hello and today almost inevitably we are talking about you foes so Kia this is your fault explain yourself

0:49.2

well this is your fault explain yourself? Well of course you have to talk about UFOs because this is a podcast about the weird left and you're having a moment I also want to talk about it because it was a childhood

0:54.4

interest of mine. You know I grew up in the period when you would be interested in

0:59.6

UFOs and that would be linked to like paranormal. The eupho's, Loch Ness, Monster and Ghost and ESP.

1:05.0

All of that business, yeah.

1:08.0

But I'm also interested in it because I think there's something really interesting in that expansion of

1:12.0

UFOBilly which cross over into that of interest of ours which is the cosmic rights.

1:17.4

I think it's a way into the cosmic right which could be an interesting thing to revisit at this moment.

1:24.0

There is also another reason I think which is perhaps there's a little bit of like escapism and lightness in this topic

1:30.4

and a moment which is pretty heavy in the wider world. Yeah right quite so.

1:35.9

Sonardia why have you even consented to this triviality?

1:39.2

I don't think it's a triviality I I'm just not interested I have to say so I'm here for the ride. I don't think I've ever had an interest in space. I think I said this in the space episode. I just feel like there's too many exciting

1:55.0

slash horrific things happening on Earth that are kind of taking my attention to worry about what's happening

2:00.8

out outer space. But I have recently watched a couple of

2:04.3

documentaries on UFOs and it got me thinking about the relationship between groups of

2:10.8

people having a sort of belief and how that relates to the state and what the state

2:16.0

tries to do about it when a community somewhere says we think this thing is unexplained

2:22.4

and then the how the what the state's interest is in in

2:26.2

reacting to that so that that's one reason why but but mostly I'm here for the

2:30.0

ride for the ride on the spaceship on the absolutely. Let's see if she's a believer by the end of

2:36.1

the show and this deallessness. Yeah let's see. What about you Jeremy? Well like Kia I was really

2:42.3

interested in this as a kid and I agree. I concede the point that

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