More misreading and pontification. Classic!

I didn’t say Audrey Hale went through anything horrific. My point is that some people do go through truly horrific stuff and nonetheless build constructive happy lives.

I didn’t say that people who shoot up elementary schools are anywhere near the number of the generically unhappy, sad and angry. Though I would hazard a guess that those who do shoot up elementary schools are all unhappy, sad and angry.

Again, my point is that whatever the circumstances of a person’s life, seeing it all through the lens of being a victim and focusing on one’s unhappiness, sadness and anger make it worse.

The Nashville shooter’s last writings are a testament to this.

I think you may have missed the author’s point which is perhaps better understood by reading the 7 page paper referred to in the article. As neither a believer or a non-believer Milligan posits:

“The contention of this paper is that alien visitation claims are a soci-
etal problem when they (a) move into the mainstream of discourse to
the extent that government policy has to respond to them; (b) when they
generate background noise which impedes science communication; and (c)
when they become entangled with indigenous origin narratives, making it
hard to recover the latter. Where this is the case, periodic debunking
looks like a failed paradigm. Something closer to a scientific research pro-
gram (SRP) might be called for, at some point. This is an idea which has
already been advanced by Avi Loeb and Martin Elvis (albeit in signifi-
cantly different ways and for different reasons). It is not clear that we are
already at the stage where an SRP is required, but such a requirement
does seem to be on the near horizon.) The paper concludes by setting out
a number of framing requirements for any such SRP.”

IOW when belief is stronger than the science belief colors both science and history. Presently we’re at the point where no amount of government disclosure or scientific inquiry is convincing. OTOH a properly devised SRP could be convincing. Milligan suggests what the key elements of such an SRP would be.

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/293600954/IAU_Equivocal_Encounters_Paper_2024.pdf

UFOs/UAPs sightings are real. Until science can prove otherwise, the most likely explanation of the more credible observations is friendly or foreign advanced technology programs that the USG benefits from concealing within the noise of real or imagined alien origins.

For me the worm in the apple is victim mentality — I’m screwed-up and unhappy because of X (or X, Y, and Z for intersectionalists) — and so much of the left reduces to victim mentality.

People can go through horrific stuff and still find their ways to happy, constructive lives. But not if they go over and over about how they are unhappy, sad, and angry — as in the shooter’s manifesto.

I see no reason to assume abuse in her home, absent any evidence of that. She was consumed by evil and was swept deeper and deeper into destruction.

Not only has the “government” in general been trying to denigrate, laugh off, explain away, ignore, and to bury the UFO issue for the last 80 some years but, if you believe Dr. Steven M. Greer, some elements of the government have tried to actively muddy the waters even further, and to create fear of the NHIs by staging phony “Abductions,” and perhaps cattle mutilations as well.

As well, the UFO Phenomena and the other “high strangeness” phenomena which—it is starting to appear—may all be part of a whole package, attract a whole spectrum of people, an increasing number of them educated, serious researchers, but others just deluded, or nuts, making sorting out the truth—however strange–from fiction extremely difficult.

Thus, with all of the natural, plus the artificial, deliberately created confusion, deciding which of those reporting such phenomena are legit, and which of the UFO/NHI phenomena they report–which are outside of our current consensus Reality–might actually be real, is a truly Herculean task.

I can see how, after awhile, a lot of people might just give up trying to sort things out, and move on to other, less threatening, more manageable, and more easily understandable issues.

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh7umwJln38