Our Cosmic Quest Ends at the Server Farm
from Talk Cocktail Hosted by Jeff Schechtman
For seventy-five years the truth about UFOs has been just about to come out, and never quite arrives. Adam Kirsch, senior editor at The Atlantic, tells me that the real question was never whether aliens are real, but why we so badly need the answer to be yes. In his new book, We Want to Believe, he reads UFO belief as a kind of faith, disclosure as a Messiah forever late, absence of evidence folded in as proof of a cover-up. Underneath sits a harder possibility: that we may be the only minds in the universe, and meaning rests on us alone. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe
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