Reply #45: Every "significant event in the world's history" has shaken SOMEONE's foundations.

[Richard Steele]

The real risk is -NOT- that the general public would
suddenly burn it's cities to the ground, it's that
the people in power might not hold so much power anymore.

They can't predict why or how such a shakeup might play out,
therefore the possibility must not be allowed to exist.

How much DIFFERENCE would it make to the average person? Not
so much, aside from more TV watching for a few weeks.

But to the elite 1/2 percent who CONTROL society, the FICTION
that our society is the best it can be is a major foundation
block of that control. The fiction that we NEED them to maintain
society is built into society itself.

The sudden appearance of a more advanced, completely external
society threatens that, and threatening that just might ultimately
threaten the stability of the narrow social pyramid they have
built to perch atop. They don't know, so they can't afford to
run the risk.