The wife of the Chilean President has described protesters in her country as being like an invasion by aliens from space (story in Spanish). This provoked an anthropological group to seek personal stories and experiences of the protest, under the banner "Alien Chronicles":
The protests have adopted the meme, and are becoming known as Octubre alienígena, perhaps in reference to the October revolution in Russia.
Meanwhile protesters in the USA gathered at Area 51 to seek the release of information on UFOs and ETs (story in English). The memes are similar and one wonders what the connection is and whether there could be a hidden, imaginary, solidarity between the two events.
In the Chilean case the alien serves as a metaphor for the disempowered seeking power. In Nevada it is a story of people seeking truth and uncovering lies, but: it is the same system that both lies and disempowers. The one protest may move in an inner direction, towards the secret, and the other in an outer direction, towards external change, but the guiding light is the same. The alien needs recognition.
What is the connection between the properly alien and earthly, political, "alienation" anyway, in any case? A strange solidarity between what is hidden and what is suppressed, repressed, the discourse of the Other, the alien? I do not know the answer, but these disconnected events draw together as well as apart in a Platonic motion.
If some people's human, economic, and political interest can be seen as so other to those in power as to be extraterrestrial, surely it is time to ask where we stand regarding exopolitics generally, and whether UFOlogy is a luxury issue any longer, and not instead - the very essence!
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