- First reaction to Disclosure Day, with a link to David Brin’s reaction; then noting the film’s religious themes, its appeal to empathy, and its allusions to past Spielberg films;
- How the reflecting pool fiasco is emblematic of Trump’s strategy: hire loyalists, not experts, and when things go wrong, blame Democrats, and saboteurs;
- Banning flu vaccines leads to more flu cases, who could have known?
- Why not ban all books?
- A mundane example of how capitalism works: when auto break-ins decline, auto glass repair businesses suffer.
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No post here yesterday because we attended a late-afternoon showing of Disclosure Day that pre-empted my usual blog-post-writing interval.
Quick take. It’s a well-made movie, sometimes thrilling and sometimes touching, about a race to disclose or suppress information the US government has accumulated for decades about alien visitations, abductions, spaceship crashes, and whatnot. That is, it takes all the conspiratorial ‘evidence’ for alien visitations at face value and tries to rationalize why the government would be suppressing it. In fact, my understanding is that most of this ‘evidence’ has long been discredited. But Spielberg wants us to believe, as he clearly does.
