Our Haunted Planet - John Keel-pages

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The sexual revolution is another key part of all this, for sexual repression and frustration have always been a basic cause of violence, peculiar social attitudes, and destructive psychoses. Fools that we are, we have always been in the habit of electing misfits to lead us - from Julius Caesar, who was an epileptic, to Adolf Hitler. Hitler's peers tried to crucify Sigmund Freud when he first dared to suggest this. But history demonstrates that he was right. We have followed an insane course for thousands of years. Once we took our finest young men to the top of a pyramid and cut out their hearts with pomp and ceremony. Today we send them off to battlefields. Once they happily climbed the pyramid under their own power. Now they are rebelling. They are questioning the system that wants their heart. The real hope of mankind may be that the system will break down or be drastically altered in the few years before our unknown Arab hears a voice in Ms head, dons a red cape, and gallops into the United States to free the Hopi Indians. The members of WOW are still watching as they have always done, probably with considerable amusement. The ultraterrestrials are still running about in their black suits and a thousand other disguises, whispering in our ears, setting race against race, and nation against nation. Our modern witch doctors, the scientists, are planting atomic bombs in known earthquake faults on the floor of the Pacific to see what will happen. Great civilizations blossomed and died here before us. Others will certainty come after us, unless we leave the planet in such a polluted, radioactive state that it will be rendered unlivable for physical beings. But even then we will have left our imprint behind. Thousands of years from now real visitors from some distant star may enter our solar system. They may stand upon our barren moon and look down at the burnt-out cinder that was once Earth, and they may find a metal plate among the" craters. It will puzzle their scientists because obviously the moon is uninhabitable and has never been settled. The plate will be just another erratic for their museum. They'll forget about it and never try to decipher the cryptic lettering. The lettering that states, *We came in peace for all too4 mankind’.