kryptonicus

@kryptonicus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Holy Grail' of Northern Lights Just Turned The Sky Blood Red As Far South As France⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It really isn’t hard to imagine how much Lovecraftian dread pre-scientific man would have experienced when looking up at something like this.

  And it’s an amazing testament to the human appreciation for beauty that we can still experience a similar sense of awe and wonder, even though we know the naturalistic explanation for the phenomenon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does all of this alien stuff take place mostly in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the major export product of the United States is American culture. UFO/alien abduction/government cover-ups are kinda baked into American popular culture at this point. Just the idea that the government is simultaneously inconvenient yet able to successfully hide far reaching evidence of alien visitation is as American as baseball and apple pie

  I’ve no doubt people are looking up at the night sky all over the world and seeing things that they think are possibly alien craft. I’ve also no doubt that there are stories and folklore about abductions in every country on earth. But American culture is insidious and infects just about everything. This forces every other event to be reframed in reference to the American UFO phenomenon.