Sara Imari Walker

And it's very dogmatic and all those things.

And I can I can agree with a lot of those criticisms.

But science fundamentally is about shared knowledge and the ability to like.

have a joint conversation about something we both understand and to be able to use that to do things like, you know, the laws of gravitation are things that we can easily state and we can build satellites and new technologies out of that knowledge.

And I think, you know, the discussion on alien life is fundamentally about new knowledge that we need to have about how the universe works and that's going to come from a lot of different places.

But for me, I don't see the UFO discussion fundamentally advancing.

It's just raising some of the mystery about certain experiences people have had, but not in a way that allows us to really answer the question of what is an alien.

There's a lot of control of narratives, which I don't like.

So I don't like people telling people how to think.

And I think what I see in the UFO discussion a lot that actually makes me stay out of that community is a lot of people that claim authority on knowledge.

And then they claim they can't share the knowledge.

And I don't like that.

I think if you have knowledge, you should share it.

You should discuss it.

You should try to figure out what it means for everybody.

And you should not protect it.

Yes.

I don't trust people when they claim to have absolute knowledge they can't share with people.

But it's such a good story though, right?

It's the best story.