I read the Segura thread. I saw the Glenn Beck video.

And the first words that came out of my mouth were, "What a bunch of crap."

Spielberg is far from the only director to make alien disclosure / suppression conspiracy movies. The original was 1951's "The Day the Earth Stood Still," by Robert Wise (forget the pathetic 2008 remake). The aliens vs. God question was very interestingly treated in M. Night Shayamalan's "Signs" (2002). Need I mention "Mars Attacks" or "The Arrival" (both 1996) for evil alien dudes?

Beck's take on A.I. put me in mind of Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" (1970), where he predicted we would all dissolve into neurotic jelly at confronting the pace of the future's advent. I read the book when it came out and, on finishing it, concluded it was bullshit. Good call. And Beck now believes an Algorithm can be dedicated to every single individual for the purpose of being that individual's sole, genius-level Svengali by use of subliminal suggestion? He has no conception of what that would entail, or of the limits of A.I. So, I'm not buying into his apprehension.

This is not a psyop. This is advertising hype, and the deliberate insertion of incoherence to produce mystery, a bogus narrative strategy that Edgar Allan Poe called "mystification." But it could easily fit into an atheist "push" by higher levels in society. I have arrived at an explanation of NASA's obsession with "finding life" on other planets, as being their earnest (desperate?) attempt to find evidence for Darwinian evolution, and thus dismissal of God. This search is much to the detraction of getting human boots on the surface of other planets. The fact that we have so far been drawing blanks on that search is starting to get on their nerves.