Letter from Rob Simpson

In the SJ Update Mailbag today we have this letter from Rob Simpson…

A few days after our first screening of a new and challenging documentary series called DEEP SPACE, I was informed that “public reaction” was so negative that the formerly enthusiastic plan to screen the entire series over the coming months is immediately cancelled.

Evidently, for some vocal members in our community, looking into DEEP SPACE was just too much to consider.

Way too much.

I forewarned everyone who was thinking of attending that the DEEP SPACE series pulls together only the scattered bits of evidence we possess, in order to help us ask better questions in future.

Better questions get us better answers.

Evidently, DEEP SPACE offers too much to think about in these contentious times.
And so, they have pressured the library to not offer THIS kind of program for thoughtful analysis.

I know we have a lot on our plates to process these days.
​I am certainly feeling it.​

But, has it ​now ​become fashionable to block what ​information ​people​ ​​are exposed to?

Adopting an “I don’t want to hear about it” attitude should be a personal decision. Must we attempt to control and restrict others thoughts, as well?

Thoughtful and brave analysis is in short supply these days.

Is this a desperate attempt to be comfortable in our old age?

Have we really grown too rigid or frightened to see the changes ​flying at us from all directions?

Most millennial kids sure see what is in the wind. ​I know mine do.

Rather than just not attend the screenings, some in our community advocate “Killing the messenger” when they don’t like what they are hearing.

Historically, has killing the messenger ever been a good idea?

There will be no stopping ​what many are calling “disclosure”.
Decades of repressed information is now exploding into our ​consciousness.

Denying new information is futile.
It is clinging to ​the past… ​an imaginary past.
It may be temporarily comforting, but is it useful?

Well, yes… for those who wish to maintain a status quo​.

And especially useful to those who wish to stay in power.

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SO… can we handle the truth?
Can we analyze new information without freaking out?

Nobody likes to hear of things like OPERATION PAPERCLIP (just one of the early points made in DEEP SPACE.)

​What was that?​

After WWII, OPERATION PAPERCLIP (and other activities we don’t talk about) was a classified US policy.

We coveted the technical advancements of ​Germany.
They were working on things we hadn’t even dreamed of.
​​And we​ sure​ didn’t want the “Ruskies” to ​acquire it.

​And so we gave no-questions-asked asylum to the best researchers the Nazi regime had to offer.

Are we to pretend that thousands of hard-line Nazi scientists were not given asylum in top levels of our military research facilities and military industries?

All for a good cause, right?

But, are we to pretend they have not exerted a philosophical influence over our post WWII military and government? …even when the evidence is in our faces?

Are we to pretend we didn’t hear Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy issue public warnings in the 1960’s about the secret influences being exerted at all levels of government?

Heck, decades earlier even President Wilson gave us a similar warning.

And earlier still, so did President Lincoln.
(Ever wonder why the warnings always involve the world banks?)

Secret​ society influences are nothing new to our democracy.

Do we owe it to ourselves to become aware of it?

Or should we just let them go about their business?

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This new​ ​​library policy is not so much about our library, as it is a shift in our culture. The library is just a reflection.

To be fair, I have been encouraged by the library to “go private” with the DEEP SPACE series. That way, our library won’t be implicated with “endorsing” game-changing information.

But, I am at a loss. I have always thought that difficult revelations are best handled ​in community…​ with friends and neighbors to help us process and​ ​​further research things.

The library seemed like a good place for that​ to happen.​
And for 6-years of Conscientious Projector screenings, it was.

But, 6 years ago, we collectively weren’t quite so seething with rage, fear, and anger. ​(The tools of societal control.)​

Times have changed.

Apparently at this critical juncture, we now must be isolated in our pursuit of ​non-mainstream ideas.

​Of course, analytical thinking is not for everyone.
And it is one’s privilege to engage in it.

Does it all just come down to the iconic Jack Nicholson line from a movie:

“You want the truth​?​ You can’t handle the truth!”

I hate to think that THAT is the truth.

It’s up to you now​ as an individual.
Carry on.
Stay centered in love.
(whatever that means to you).
That is where hope lives.
It is also where solutions await us.
And stay awake.
The official narrative is falling apart.

To quote mid-20th century journalist Edward R. Murrow as he concluded each broadcast….

“Good night, and good luck.”
—
Rob

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