Non-Sequitur: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 216-218, 222-225

Last week, we covered the three alternatives that JASON suggested to the ruling elites to save the Earth from environmental catastrophe due to overpopulation. The three alternatives were: underground cities (ala Dr. Strangelove), fleeing into space, or blowing a hole in the atmosphere to let the heat out (like in Spaceballs...kind of). I cut the article short because Cooper settles on a strange combination of the two. The third was rejected, not because it's implausible to him but because it's objective. We would know if this had happened. Because open nuclear weapons testing had been banned and Starfish Prime had already been detonated which did not blast a hole in the atmosphere--Cooper cannot pretend that this is an actual solution. 

I actually cut the article short because his combination of the two solutions was to accept that a plague was used to get the population down to manageable numbers. Cooper writes, "It was decided BY THE ELITE that since the population must be reduced and controlled, it would be in the best interest of the human race to rid ourselves of the undesirable elements of our society. Specific targeted populations include BLACKS, HISPANICS, and HOMOSEXUALS."

This claim is familiar to me: it's AIDS denialism. Cooper is parroting the conspiracy theory, pushed by the USSR in "Operation Infektion" that AIDS was used by the US to get rid of populations of African-Americans and homosexuals. I was rather excited because I know quite a bit about this conspiracy theory, and its Russian origin. It's quite an interesting tale because the USSR exploited the African American and homosexual populations' already (very earned) mistrust of the government to push this theory. There are videos of Reagan's press secretary making fun of a reporter on two separate occasions for asking what the White House response was to an emerging disease. 

I had a whole thing planned here: and then I began reading this week's section. Cooper has this annoying bit where he introduces topics and then immediately drops them. In the above-quoted section,  Cooper hints at it. He mentions AIDS then writes, "The joint US and Soviet leadership dismissed Alternative 1 (the nuclear solution) but ordered work to begin in Alternatives 2 and 3 virtually at the same time."

And...that's it. He's done and moving on to something else. It's a bit frustrating because I'm not spending 1k words on three sentences. It also breaks the internal consistency of the entire chapter. Last week was about needing to reduce the population because of resources and climate change, here those exact same solutions are because the population needs to be controlled. 

The next several paragraphs are about drugs. Conspiracy theorists have a weird relationship with drugs. They have all of this "evidence" that X controls the drug trade, and they condemn it, but it seems like they ought to be in favor of total legalization. Cooper, this time (because I'm sure there will be others), indicts George H.W. Bush as being the architect of drug smuggling from South America. He has no basis for this other than the company Bush had been CEO of, also used offshore drilling. That's it, that is the connection. From here Cooper claims Bush was the one who sold the drugs to children, which is an old canard used to demonize drug dealers; but I am curious as to how many times this actually occurred. A dealer is going to sell to whoever has the money, but children do not usually have money. 

Then Cooper returns to space and how at the very same time Kennedy announced the Moon shot, the US and USSR already had a base on the Moon. I'd be interested in seeing a version of this book that either edits out all of Cooper's little asides or collects them into their own chapters like Nietzsche's aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil. Cooper attempts to link the drug trade with the space program by claiming that the drugs funded the space program. Yet Cooper has got his chronology all wrong. The space program, in Cooper's version, would have a base on the Moon by 1962. This means that work on it would have started before the CIA was even a thing, and while Bush was still recovering from being shot down and almost killed by the Imperial Japanese army. 

Cooper spends some time on Kennedy, five pages on the assassination to be exact, and I'll discuss them next week because Cooper has a unique theory on the assassination. 

If we skip forward to page 222 we are back to space. Remember, this chapter is supposed to be about Majestic 12 and aliens. We've covered it a bit, but Cooper needs to focus. If we remember, one of the solutions was to flee Earth using alien technology. The problem of consistency comes back because the aliens specifically told us that we needed to solve this problem on our own. Nevertheless, we built the Moon base which is creatively named "Luna." Cooper claimed that he has pictures of this base and here would be a great time to insert them--but he does not. He describes the base with domes, spires, and large T-shaped mining vehicles. His description sounds like the cover of an "Amazing Fantasy" pulp magazine and I'm assuming that's where his description comes from unless he provides the photographs. The only evidence that Cooper provides is a reference to pictures in Fred Steckling's book, "We Discovered Alien Bases on the Moon." An image search for the book provides blurry pictures where a primed brain through pareidolia will find things that look like structures if you squint hard enough.

What Cooper seems to know is that he never needs to provide the evidence--he just needs to claim that he has it. Of course, he cannot release it, "they" would never allow such a thing. Because Cooper's worldview has these people as all-knowing and all-powerful it makes sense that we would never be allowed to see these photos--unless you own a copy of the 1981 book. The entire section ends with Cooper referencing the interview with the guy from chapter 11 while Cooper discusses Nixon and Watergate. It's profoundly uninteresting. Nixon's impeachment was for the purpose of furthering the alien coverup, a claim that makes little sense.

Because we jumped around, I will explain where we are for the next two posts. Next week I'll cover 218-222--which is Cooper's bizarre JFK assassination theory. After that, we'll go to page 225 and discuss the UFO community infighting that Cooper brings up in order to slander Stanton Friedman.