Convergences: New UFO Files, Government Secrecy, & Control | MTS #10
A new podcast episode arrives!
Happy Saturday, TSFers!
Kale Zelden and I were finally able to get in the same virtual room after his recent speaking engagement at the Symbolic World Summit and the whirlwind end of the school year happenings for a high school humanities teacher.
And it happened just hours after the latest Pentagon UFO files drop, so we talk a bit more about those, and about…well, a whole bunch of other things.
From the episode description:
A new round of UFO/UAP files, Eric Weinstein’s recent comments on Joe Rogan, alleged CIA whistleblower claims, Skinwalker Ranch, White Sands, Epstein, string theory, AI, Mars, and the deeper question underneath all of it: who is actually in control?
In Episode 10 of Monitoring the Situation, Steve Skojec and Kale Zelden follow the convergences between government secrecy, scientific gatekeeping, media silence, technological acceleration, and the strange breakdown of the modern story about reality.
This is not just a conversation about UFOs. It is a conversation about evidence, trust, power, disclosure, and what happens when the institutions that claim to explain the world no longer seem capable of explaining what is happening inside it.
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I've made it to the place in the podcast where Kale is saying Elon Musk doesn't care about people and is just using them - and saying people don't really like working for Elon. As it is, my own daughter sent me Elon's tweet that he's looking for people with "exceptional ability" who've demonstrated it. I talked to Grok last evening about this - because it would be pretty cool to work for him. And Grok starts attempting to recruit me!
The thing is, I wanted all my life to be free to build things without limits - without people telling me it's not possible. Elon's on the other side of this, hunting for people who get it - who get that everything is possible - you just have to figure it out.
For me this has nothing to do with power. This is saying why not? Mars is just the start.
This is Captain Kirk not accepting the constraints of the Kobayashi Maru test.
This is humans doing what they were given the ability to do - because we are made in God's image no less.
Look, I wrote a sci-fi novel for my high-school dropout son who ends up not only working for Elon in the story, but preventing Elon from ruining a pristine world they find. In the story, my son builds a legacy by becoming the founder of Earth II.
Sure, it's just a story, but my attitude is I don't care if you are Elon Musk, you still have to do what's right, or that's not acceptable.
Hey, I told Grok my plan for making AI way wiser than it currently is. It's feasible enough that I'm thinking to work on it on my own. Because I think I'm seeing what's possible. Grok told me about similar things the AI "experts" are doing, but based on its descriptions, they haven't figured it out yet.
Elon's stated goal is to "understand the universe". That requires understanding truth. And that requires knowing God. Without God, you will never get there. With God...
Once again, it's quite hard to take the time to listen to such long podcasts. But about halfway through you said your prefrontal cortex was saying, wow, this is a big deal, and yet your gut was, bleh. And you asked how is that possible?
It's because you feel what the reaction would be to showing somebody the clip that made your mind jump. You instinctively know others just won't be impressed - and knowing that is incredibly deflating. And so you want it to be cinematically epic. Maybe then people will catch it. But that's not what the clip is, and so you're stuck.
Part of this is the media. If the media ignores the story, then people inherently think it just can't be all that important. If media goes ballistic - even over misinformation - then people think there must be something truly significant there. We are wired to to follow the elites - even when we don't watch them ourselves - because what the elites frame filters down and influences everyone.