THE ACTIVIST MIND

A ZNN EDITORIAL

Activists ponder the impossible and seek ways to achieve a common purpose. Alternatively... The job of an activist is to get under the skin of the indolent and make them scratch 'til they bleed the truth.

The activist mind is a rare but contagious commodity. Like the mind-set of great explorers and those who risk and flaunt tradition, activists ignite the possibilities of radical ideas and contrive to make the unthinkable happen. 

The activist mind seeks what others cannot imagine and acts as if  there are no barriers or impediments. Few others dare engage this mode of ethical reasoning both as they fall asleep each night and during their first moments of wakefulness. 

It haunts them even as they sleep.   

The Activist Mind asks you to choose

Activists are a primordial breed - instinctive thinkers who not only challenge the status quo but also break its barriers into small bits for easy consumption by the like-minded as well as the indolent. 

The  primary role of the activist is to create conditions in which social discourse about matters and events of critical importance and interest to the global community can be inseminated, born and go on to thrive in the human collective consciousness.

Make what haunts them a paper cut that just won't heal for those who find it hard to pay attention to reality.

This brings us to the peculiar but responsive activist who challenges the human family with a proposition that recognizes planet Earth has been and is being engaged by multiple groups of off-world civilizations. This category of activists seeks not to be accepted but recognized. Acceptance is a passive modality akin to patronization. Recognition on the other hand illuminates and challenges the nocturnal behaviours of those who lurk in the darkness to maintain the status quo of a sinking ship.

Please do not fall off into the deep-end of this issue unless you can tread water - because there is no safety in trying to touch bottom - one either dispenses with this issue as nonsensical or one engages it as a thought-experiment closer to reality than one may perceive. 

Pick your referent group and read-on... or drowned in a miasma of disbelief - either option is a risk. The activist mind asks you to choose.

Anyone, or a cohesively committed group, who presses for or creates conditions that promote opportunities for open public dialogue can be considered an activist and an educator. In this sense, the activist-educator is the essential ingredient - a catalyst if you will - one who frames the facts to create a revised world-view and a compelling pathway towards new understandings. 

Evidence of an Extraterrestrial Presence - as elevated by the activist - unreservedly presents documentation and testimony of the highest order. Most may walk by this evidence as if it were mere window dressing. Some stop and soon realize it is the most profound deposition of facts presented in human history.

Strategies and Tactics

The activist-educator utilizes two modalities: strategy and tactic.

Strategy is a plan - tactic is an action directed towards a specified goal. Historically, few activists rarely articulated grand strategies or tactics; they simply followed their beliefs, gathered those of like-mind and the clan marched forward. Today's highly politicized social milieux requires a more refined master plan and expedient actions.

Today's activist, like the obstreperous and deviant renegade, is the first to signal to the rest of the clan that a radical and marginalized idea is advancing on the horizon. It is from the nascence of injustice that the radical intention of a strategy is born.  

Like the canary in the coal mine, yes - but in this case - one who sustains herself for future reference. She falls not off her perch but seeks to breathe the fresh air of justice through change.

The second modality is quite fascinating. Although the world-view of the activist is at first almost always rejected by society at large; the activist perseverates. A crafty and determined unwillingness to cave-in to public and institutional criticism guides the true activist. The activist mind demonstrates through direct action that human intuition has a value-equivalency to data derived from science, social mores or the five senses. This quaint strategy seems to work quite well when attempting to awaken the indolent, government officials, bureaucrats and even one's best friends.

To understand the nature of this modality it is useful to cite the lives of historical activists: Mohandas Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., Emmeline Pankhurst Rosa Parks, Malaha Yousafzai and Susan B. Anthony. Each were successful in imbedding radical and sanguine ideologies into the human collective consciousness that endure to this very day. Each employed tactics that resulted in sociological, religious and political change in spite of suffering dreadful recrimination, incarceration and even death. 

On the other hand, the skeptic or those who adhere to traditional world-views rarely put themselves in jeopardy. They dismiss the activist as libertarian, utopian or simply radical. The skeptic and authoritarians frequently use doubt and uncertainty to bludgeon new ideas with the theory that certain categories of knowledge and information are impossible or worst yet - unthinkable. 

By the use of cynicism, ridicule, fear and personal attacks, the authoritarian refuses to consider radical ideas while seeking to impose their will on others - divide rather than unify. The activist mind works differently. Activists ponder the impossible in order to achieve goals beyond the human frontier of thought. Activists seek ways to achieve a common purpose to promote unifying discourse and cooperation. In other words - new concepts - however radical, are good ideas worthy of consideration. The null set of ideas is not an option.

Finally, that skeptics are usually ignored by the activist is considered the true mark of a dedicated activist. The activist does this for several reasons - most important of which is to conserve the psychic energy required to rise above the din and diminutions of personal attacks and the odd bullet they may have to dodge when things get serious. Some activists even go so far as to embrace their critics in the hope that activism's contagious nature might work a miracle on the intransigent.

The Extraterrestrial Presence

The ubiquitous notion that humans are a supreme species is regularly challenged by activists who advocate in favour of the ET reality. The late Dr. John E. Mack, former Head of Psychiatry at Harvard University, often stated humans were not the top of the cosmic heap. For an activist like Dr. Mack, this mode of reasoning opened the door to understanding complex issues about the Extraterrestrial presence.

Generally considered as unthinkable and radical to many - a growing segment of the human family believe radical ideas such as an ET Presence are becoming thoroughly thinkable. 

In the last five decades we have witnessed the initiatives of several political figures who have pondered what appears to be impossible or even a threat to their own political capital. Yet they moved forward to find ways of achieving the impossible - a consensus risk.

[Ed. Note: In this editorial the acronyms UFO and UAP are used interchangeably to reflect both historical context and the more progressive description of craft of unknown origin. ZNN is of the opinion that the term ‘UFO’ will soon fade from our lexicon. It will be universally replaced by UAP or an even more sublimated and activist oriented acronym once the arbiters of secrecy relinquish their straggle-hold on the truth.]

Several examples of this are now a recognized part of a growing trend towards a condemnation of the scepticism and cynicism that has held back progress in making the UFO/ET issue a prominent matter in global geo-politics. 

Although not fully engaged by most political leaders - media coverage - the vanguard of public opinion - has taken on this issue. No other journalistic bookmark reveals this more expressively than the New York Times article of December 2017 on UFOs by Ralph Blumenthal, Helene Cooper and Leslie Kean. In it, Blumenthal, Cooper and Kean describe how Senators Harry Reid, Daniel Inouye and Ted Stevens' 2006-007 initiative made possible an investigation into UAPs. They achieved a $22 million Senate appropriation to the US Pentagon to investigate UFOs. Such an appropriation of millions would have been considered unheard of or even un-American in the past. But it happened.

The fact that three senators, including Senate Intell-committee member Mark Warner, could be briefed by defence department officials on the UAP matter was also unthinkable at one time. But it happened.

None of these politicians sought political benefit - on the contrary - it’s more likely their interest in the UFO matter and acting upon it could actually hinder their political capital. It didn't and they moved forward in the hope of disrupting the old ways of secrecy.

The Catalysts of Activism

In another example, former US Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defence Chris Mellon's decision to come forward in numerous media interviews about the reality of UAP was not only courageous but an apolitical move. Mellon's decision challenged the status quo - creating open discourse about the only two explanations remaining about the origins of UAP - advanced and secret terrestrial technologies or, Extraterrestrial visitors.

Three separate but related events seem to have have animated and extended the larger dialogue created by Chris Mellon about the UAP phenomenon. 

These three events can be viewed as catalysts - together they have created an interesting tincture composed of political intrigue and military flirtations with unusual craft.

The primary catalyst was political. Just prior to 2007, the aforementioned $22 million Senate appropriation for a UFO investigation within the Pentagon was procured by Senator Harry Reid. Later, in 2019 and early 2020 the military stepped forward. Revelations by ranking US Navy officials indicated their pilots were experiencing on-going encounters with UFOs. The videos of these strange encounters - later released by the Pentagon - were labelled the TIC-TAC videos. 

The third catalyst is peculiar because it is comprised of three distinct spheres of influence - intelligence gathering, military assets and of course politics. The Select Senate Committee on Intelligence is responsible for regular yearly legislation that allocates funding and sets priorities for the US military and the American intelligence apparatus. This legislation is called The Intelligence Authorization Act. It is a huge document replete with "wherebys", "therefores" as well as lofty abstractions such as national security, counterintelligence and potential adversaries. 

So, why is this tome so germane? This legislation's relevance is not only non-trivial but it is dramatically synchronistic. Its architects, Senators Marco Rubio and Mark Warner both of whom have been briefed by the US Navy on UFOs managed - for the very first time in the long history of this run-of-the-mill yearly published Act contains - yes you guessed it - an entire section on unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP). This section of the Act requires by law the DNI - the Director of National Intelligence to submit a report to the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence about all data that has been gathered by the National Intelligence Agency on the UAP phenomenon. Legislatively, this has never been done before. 

Why? No one really knows. But the section on UAP is there for a reason. The best guess right now among activist minds - who just eat this stuff up - is that Rubio and Warner may be looking down the road this spring to use information from the DNI to hold hearings on UAP.

A big swallow - but to the activist mind the unprecedented nature of this insertion into a major piece of US Senate legislation opens the door to profound information and future political strategies to unlock the vault of secrecy concerning UFOs and it being the subject of scrutiny - public or otherwise - by US elected officials and not just the denizens of secrecy that have ruled-over this issue for over 70 years. To the activist mind this is nirvana.   

Could the UAP matter become part of the democratic process and in turn emerge as the third rail of American politics?  

In a more specific sense - a conversation about how entities within the US military and in the private sector are experimenting with and perhaps already using UAP based propulsion systems of energy, could very well engage yet  another category of public debate about re-thinking the use of fossil fuels. The fact that this matter is not yet a major issue during the 2020 campaign is indeed unfortunate.

Using outdated world-views and rhetoric to create dynamic and new strategies for change can never be effective in educating the global community about the most significant event in human history. New ways of thinking are needed to affect global change... regrettably we’re just not there yet. 

But a prominent UFO/ET activist sees it differently.

The 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure - Washington DC

In 2013 The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure took the leap of all activist leaps since 2001. 

Activist Stephen Bassett - Executive Director of the Paradigm Research Group and a  rogue but temperate activist took such a leap. He decided - with some funding from supporters - to rent the Washington DC National Press Club for five days. The Washington DC National Press Club is the revered press locale of such figures as John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower and other esteemed Presidents. 

Basset chose this location to set-up a mock Congressional Hearing featuring former members of Congress and the Senate to explore the UFO/ET question. 

For over 30 hours, some 40 witnesses gave testimony. Pilots, lawyers, authors, research experts, Air Traffic Control Senior advisors, a nuclear missile launch commander and a former Canadian Minister of Defence gathered in Washington DC to provide unimpeachable testimony about UFO incursions here on planet Earth. Many consider the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure a benchmark that may play-out in real time soon.

"What kind of person would risk such an occasion almost doomed to failure from the onset? The answer - an ACTIVIST. To this day Mr. Bassett may rue the day he conceived to assemble the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure - but one thing is certain - no observer that ZNN is aware of laments his decision." ZNN spokesperson.

Perhaps with this kind of activist wake-up call - one that brings forward the open acknowledgement of the ET PRESENCE - there is hope that the activist mind still thrives. 

Ignited by these minds only the activist mind and the collective will of the human family can make the unthinkable happen.

So - is activism contagious - is it a mode of reasoning that may resurrect humanity? Time will tell and so will the bullets they dodge.

Your comments are invited.