From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:04:24 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 17:18:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Alert: Majestic Art of Electronic


 >Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:46:37 z (MDT)
 >From: Stephen MILES Lewis <smiles@elfis.net>
 >To: updates@sympatico.ca
 >Subject: Alert: Majestic Art of Electronic Disinformation


 >Majestic Art of Electronic Disinformation

 >"A character in the game might ask me the name of my wife. A few
 > months later I might get a call saying, "'Neil, if you don't
  > stop snooping, you might find Laurie in a pool of blood'."

  - Neil Young, Game Designer at Anim-X


 >Back in February I learned of a new "game" which threatens to
 >further blur the lines between fact and fiction within the ufo
 >community and its relevant parapolitical/conspiracy sub-
 >communities. It's called Majestic and it is being billed as "The
 >game that plays you." This new online interactive experience
 >uses the player's own mind as the gaming environment with the
 >world wide web and telecommunications networks as its
 >intravenous feed straight into that player's paranoia prone
 >imagination.

The inventor of this game will be happily raking in the dough
until the game turns around to bite him as the altimate
conspirator.

A major problem with society in the USA today is the
"acceptance" of conspiracy. Just because you are paranoid
doesn't mean you don't have people looking at you. Maybe your
paranoia is "justifiable." When my son started discussing the
moon landing hoax I know that conspiracy was hitting too close
to home. He watched the FOX show. He has already been "brought
up" to think that you can't trust public officials, the
government, etc. Who taught him this?

I didn't do it,...at least not directly, although he is
indirectly aware that my UFO research essentially calls into
question the honesty of certain portions of the government in
relation to the UFO subject. After all, the UFO FBI CONNECTION
is based on documents that were secrets when written and for
many years afterward. What has the government been hiding? we
would all like to know. (This also holds true of the Kennedy
Assassination, King assassination, etc.)

But what if the future generations of children (say 20 and under
at the present time) grtow up continually suspicious of the
government, just as are the so called "militias" we have heard
about in recent years, taking up arms in preparation for a
"government attack?"

When paranoia rules, civilization decays slowly or quickly
depending upon how untrustful people are.

The bottom line here is trust. Civilization is based on mutual
trust between people. Where trust fails laws intervene. Either
you do "good things because you are a responsible person or else
"we " will pass laws to make you do good things ./ (Good, iin
all its various contexts, is defined by the popular opinion if
not by religious dictate such as the Ten Commandments). If I
can't trust you to make sure the brakes on your car are good
then I will pass laws that enforce the rule... you shalll have
your brakes checked. If I can't trust you to have drivers
insurance, then I will pass laws to make sure you can't drive
until you have insurance. And So On.

So what if kids grow up not trusting authority? This has already
happened in a small way (e.g., the children of the 60's and
70's, war protesters, etc.)

Now with the internet and many kids "plugged in"... without
experience of life and history behind them, how are they to
discern truth from falsehood? How are they to understand the FOX
TV show? My son was quite accurate in recalling the various
"telling points" against the landing (it was originally the
Chinese who denied the moon landing back in the 70's).

We have guys like HOagland going around talking about structures
on the moon being covered up by NASA, shuttle videos galore of
UFOs galore in outer space. Why shouldn't kids mistrust the
government? But if you don't trust the government, why do what
the government asks?

I was on a radio show in Bremerton, Washington, the other day...
"Conspiracy Radio." Gee, conspiracies are entertainment (watch
"Conspiracy Theory for great entertainment) until they hit too
close to home. As I recall the host of the show emphasized all
the conspiracies that could be discussed and how the UFO
conspiracy was that day's topic. He wanted to bring all the
conspuiracy information to the kids listening to the show (the
truth about conspiracy HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oxymoron). I responded
by saying I didn't think it was a good idea to bring kids up on
a diet of conspiracy, or words to that effect.

It will be interesting...and perhaps scary -- to see what our
civilization in the USA and other "advanced" countries will be
in 10,. 20 years when the children of today are the rulers of
tomorrow.

And I wonder when Neil Young will think when his kids come to
him and accuse him of being a conspirator... because that is
what is on the web... and the web is the truth.