The ALIEN VIEW
What do you get for the Alien View?
What's in it for real, what's in it for you?
What is the pay off, how is it lettered?
Why should you take it, how is it better?
The answer is measured in moments of ease.
When you're thankful for blessings, and free of disease.
When the morning light sings all its praises to you.
And you're blessed some respite from your hatred of Jews.
Self hatred is gone in the life of a fly.
Self loathing is gone if you're wondering why.
The ending of hatred of others beginning,
The peace with yourself _in itself_ extra innings.
You return to the store from the lot with your cart.
That boy gets a break, some respite, a new start.
You treat everyone else as you would be treated
Your pleasure increases -- you're not feeling cheated.
A clean way to live as you do what you do?
Who pays for your play? Is it just? Is it true?
Are you stealing, double dealing, unfaithful at best?
Satisfaction a rare bird, and you're failing your test?
With the alien view this tends to recede,
And a break that is even is what you'll concede.
You'll be thankful for water that comes out of your sink.
Your fear of the strange is deep sixed in the drink.
You welcome the sky and the depths of its reaches.
You pick up your trash -- stop polluting the beaches.
You find that your brother _cannot_ be your enemy.
Your conscience is more than a cricket named Jiminy!
You don't throw it away so you're saving your money.
You're closer to your friend, and you're tighter with your honey.
You're electing a government to steward Earth's seed.
You insure that it's tailored to *individual* need.
The homeless disappear from forgotten city streets,
And the food you eat's more edible, nutritious and complete.
The DOW's a hundred thousand -- living cities past the sky. . .
The millions now past suffering may never have to die.
Population would decrease in turn, in line with common sense.
Those remaining sort their garbage, not un-clever, not so dense.
The Earth springs back from humankind's awaited kind surcease.
You find diversity a good thing, just the thing to keep the peace.
It's not so much you're *gaining* that sells the Alien View.
It's the feeling that you're getting when respected 'cause you're you.
It's what you don't put up with, what simply goes away --
Dishonesty, hypocrisy, and night melt into day.
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It's been requested by a reader or two <g> for some ideas on how they might get their own Alien View. I humbly submit the proceeding as a suggested bibliography for an exploration of that mind set.
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I seriously doubt if many of us come by the Alien View intuitively (perhaps Theodore Sturgeon), so it helps to examine the obscure, inconvenient, and suspiciously maligned -- _then_, individually, decide what rings true. This is the essence of an illusive Alien View.
The Alien View suggests you logically and unemotionally examine every situation as a reasonable, well intentioned, and informed ET might, sans preconceived human, or personal notion. You cannot, then, by definition, have an axe to grind. Get perspective, insist on some distance. Your first impulse must be to put yourself in the other persons shoes, precluding a desire to commit intellectual suicide for a flag or religion -- be truthful though it hurts or offends personal or convenient values, and let real chips fall where they may.
Here's a disclosing and anecdotal example by a friend of the Alien View in action. One day in the mid 1980's at the height of the societal drubbing the *traitor* Jane Fonda was enduring, it occurred to him, (in new light of the recognition that the Viet Nam war was an illegal, immoral, and unethical endeavor perpetrated for what could not be WRONGER reasons) . . . that his hatred of Jane Fonda was unjustified, specious, and without foundation. She was in fact a hero . . .and he was able to see her validity and courage.
Seriously, he had an axe to grind. he was a *hero* of that war -- he has a distinguished flying cross, and a purple heart from that war -- and was making a very good living turning other young men into steely eyed killers who would subsequently fly in future wars fought for the ubiquitous and persistent wrong reasons. . . What was it, though, that would feed his hatred for her after he discovered she was right? The hatred was a knee jerk reaction that served selfish ends. The Alien View sees that for what it is -- arbitrary, abusive, unjust. . . unconstructive.
Please understand, being honest enough to cop to the truth regarding Viet Nam (Only ONE heresy I have embraced) in no way diminishes the pride I feel on a personal level for volunteering when my country called, nor should it detract from the ultimate sacrifice made by those 50,000 who names are scratched in stone on Washington's wall. We were young, and unlike Jane Fonda, our cognitive dissonance would not let us believe that our parents, teachers, and leaders would ever lie to us. This is what the Alien View sees -- even well intentioned prevarication, the allowance of that prevarication, then reaping what is sown. The Alien View makes the admission that the 50,000 died needlessly -- MacNamara all but admitted it, all that remains is to cop. We don't -- THAT causes the problem! Further, balance what those 50,000 men and women mean to us against 30,000 children that starve to death on this planet every day of our lives. Perspective… distance!
The following bibliography went a long way to developing my alien view -- which brings up a problem we may have, you and I! If you are obstinate that (blind) nationalism, and (hate mongering) religious fundamentalism are not tearing this world apart, then go back to sleep. If you are similarly obstinate in a belief your government agencies or your captains of industry are concerned with your welfare . . .no problem. . .I'll get you up for "American Gladiators."
Some readers miss the point that this book only regards the potential for Ancient Astronauts. But what the book is really about is how and where our Judeo-Christian religious traditions originated, and why God, Yahweh, and Satan are not what you think they are. Sitchin is one of only 200 people in the world that can read the substance of these texts, and is highly regarded. Six more books await the reader, after the startling revelations of "The 12th Planet."
2. Another book to read is "Lies My Teacher Told Me", by James W. Loewen. This book is a painful read because it is the perfect illustration that "nothing is the way you think it is" (another precept of the Alien View). Cognitive dissonance is explored as a reason for allowing horrific educational, societal, and cultural behaviors that persist to this day. Moreover, our blindered educational system is pointed up as the cause of our continued folly, and misery.
Two said he was a great thinker ahead of his time, and two said he was crazy. When questioned further, which two, do you suppose, had never read his books? Guess wrong, and it almost time for "American Gladiators."
Here are the two main I.V. bunkies"
The books to read are "Worlds in Collision," and " Earth in Upheaval, " These are worth reading if for no other reason than that they are the subject of such hateful derision and vituperation by the establishment. The Alien View says "read specifically what you are told
not to read." The stronger the warning to avoid, the more your investigation should be drawn. Velikovsky, by the way, seems better referenced than his detractors, which are all proclamation, and limited imagination, and who all campaigned heroically to keep him from even being published!
Best scratch the scales from your eyes, and do a little growing up.
That's all for now -- keep looking up, out, and in, but most assuredly where they tell ya' not to look! For all the rest -- it's time for "American Gladiators."