An alternative hypothesis for the madness in America"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
—Sherlock Holmes (in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
The Sign of the Four).
Suddenly, the news is filled with stories about UFOs. This is because the Pentagon has been releasing information about the many times military personnel have spotted inexplicable flying objects in the sky. There's a theory, too, that these objects have been zipping around the seas and oceans. It occurred to me that these stories may help explain the irrational nature of American politics in 2021. Or perhaps there's a more ordinary but even more worrying explanation for 2021's madness.
Here are the questions that indicate an alien intelligence behind American policies:
1. The U.S. aborts a sizable proportion of its population. What species does that to its young? Are there any parallels in nature?
Ten Questions on Critical Race Theory
2. The U.S. educational system continues to dumb itself down, churning out a generation of graduates less competent than its forebears. What civilization can survive that?
3. A once industrial colossus, the U.S. is deindustrializing under the banner of climate change, yet China, which is the largest polluter on the planet by far, continues unchecked. What functional society commits societal apoptosis like this? Ancient Troy, perhaps?
4. The U.S. is instituting policies that will degrade the morale and effectiveness of its military and intelligence services. How long does such a nation tend to last?...
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