Say you're combining the Play-Doh with the UFOs. If you do have this trans temporal other thing

that's outside of the cave, think about like in our linear space time or whatever, you have like,

you know, a couple of different timelines. One would be that we have like resource abundance and

everything is great and amazing. And then the other is, you know, that things get super

dystopian. It's like ready player one. We all, you know, live in these shanty towns. We have to

plug ourselves into the board or some VR, you know, game or whatever just to like, you know, get by.

Say these timelines are actually concurrent. If you were like a guardian of the good timeline,

you'd probably send people through

like a virtue test. Maybe what we're in now is this low level simulation for like, you know,

and all we have to do is like contemplate virtue, get dragged out of the cave and like not,

you know, kick and scream too much and like enlighten ourselves. And then we become worthy of like the real better world.

Welcome back to the transmission, my friends.

I'm sure many of you have deduced that I have been utterly seduced.

Rhyme wasn't planned, but we'll take it by the UFO topic.

But I really think the only way forward from a moderately satisfying philosophical sense-making

perspective, at least for me personally, is a multidisciplinary approach.

We've got to get beyond government-sanctioned disclosure alone, you know, novelty-evoking

tales alone. Don't get me wrong, I am here for all of it.

But we've got to go just as deep inside, I think, as we are going outside. And on that note,

this approach goes beyond, I think, what most people would even consider to be the UFO topic.

This is why I love thinkers like Jacques Valet, for instance. He brings just a mythopoetic girth to the conversation that I

badly wish we had more of. But easier said than done. I mean, it makes sense why people like

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