I didn’t know much about Carl Sagan other than he seems to have been a skeptic. I certainly didn’t know he’d published a positive paper on possible Sumerian alien influence, thanks for that.
To me it makes perfect sense to deduce pretty much all reference to gods is actually towards aliens of some description or another.
When we look at the drivers of science that wish to supress those kinds of thoughts it is all about money, profit, and capitalism.
By capitalism I mean the practice of using posession of capital of any kind as a weapon, to enforce scarcity.
All political “sides” practice this, it isn’t peculiar to East or West, socialist, or capitalist by the political sense.
The business model of Universities is to gather knowledge, then to capitalise on that knowledge.
So the more knowledge a University is perceived to have, the more valuable they are perceived to be, thus the more money they can make.
All academics then, just like all people, are subconsciously encouraged throughout our entire lives to “big up” our achievements both as individuals and as groups, to maximise potential earnings.
Academic papers go a long way towards crediting known peers and contributors with work on which research was built, or referenced, but nothing is said about those reponsible historically for the inherited logic we used to work out our various concepts.
In truth, that would be down to the inherited evolution of all of humanity, so a prohibitely large list.
A genetic stamp of the contributor on each paper would probably suffice, but then we would quickly run into profit driven criticism of crtical race theory, but I digress.
Bottom line is, if we were to find proof that all of our knowledge was not actually ours, but originated even partly from ancient aliens, reconstructed by genetic evolution, the whole idea and business model of profiting from “owned” intellectual property would be laid wide open to criticism.
Hence that is resisted, even violently, mostly subconsciously, by the capitalist mindset.
There is no grand conspiracy theory, people evidently don’t need to be organised to display this characteristic, it is programmed into us by the system of capitalism.
Scientific instruments like Occams razor look actually quite harmful to science, when we look at it through non-profit eyes.
When the resources to do so become unlimited, I think we will see much of science occupied with investigating the full outcomes of all considerations cut out previously by the profit driven instrument that is Occam’s razor.
It is Occam’s razor itself that should be cut out, I would say.
I believe the main message we were left by those aliens, in the only form we might eventually understand in the form of many riddles, lots of them, is a warning, to beware of using too much of the stored energy of Earth.
That is what results from all things driven by profit.
That is where we are at, and would be able to all see clearly, if our eyes were not blinkered by lifelong capitalist training.
This is the very thing all religions warned of, that we would begin to burn, on a living planet starved of energy, if we worshiped false gods (money representing only the energy of Earth /capital)
A KiloWatt-hour is capital, whilst energy coming from the sun is simply Watts.
Why do we only account for static amounts of energy, whilst the sun shines on us always as dynamic?
Right there is the heart of the very problem they tried to warn us about.
