"When you have a secret that is deranging your life, there's both an urge to purge and an urge to avoid. And you see both of these things in certain people, which is that they're trying to get back home to normal. They've been exposed to some piece of information - to be blunt, war used to create divisions where somebody had seen war and somebody hadn't.
And how do they live under the same roof now that one of them has seen something that the other can't even imagine?
So if this, in fact, breaks you out of polite society, it's entirely consistent to have somebody with a basic limelight avoiding personality who's going to keep going back to the well, because at some level they're trying to say, 'I'm not crazy.' And just to be very clear about it, part of my desire to stick up for people out there, is that I watch the power to silence that comes from stigma and shame, in particular stigma and shame as entertainment.
And the idea of laughing at people like the use of the words clown, buffoon, debunk, LOL, ROTFL, most people can't stand up to this. And it really bugs me that an entire group in the world thinks it's completely OK to destroy an individual who dares to raise a voice. And that's the non-science reason I'm out here in UFO territory, is that. I can't stand basically, bullying and gaslighting people who've seen something, want answers, want to ask questions, and then somehow, it's like there was a secret meeting where everybody decided the truth and you weren't part of it.
And the basic attitude towards people who engage in this kind of gaslighting is F you! Science has your back. These people don't belong in our minions, in our community, and they have to be driven out."
He added: "In the case of UFOs, I've been lied to. It is very clear that a lot of very smart people feel that they have had their lives destroyed over taking this seriously as a topic"
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