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JD Vance’s UFO Demons

JD Vance on UFOs: “I don’t think they’re aliens; I think they’re demons.”

Anaïs Nin: “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.”

We don’t see the world (or the phenomenon) as it is — we see it as we are. High time the exorcists known as clinical mental health workers were dispatched to Vance’s DC residence.

The Vice President, as do an evangelical cadre of top US Air Force brass, warn, UFOs are piloted by inter-dimensional things that go bump in the night. By the evidence, the primary threat to the security of the US homeland: an acute episode of shared psychosis inflicting men in positions of power.

A woodcut, carved in Basel in Switzerland in 1566, depicts an episode of bizarre aerial activity. Black globes were described traveling with immense velocity and eclipsing the sky and the sun. (Samuel Coccius / Public Domain)

The declarations are, without a doubt, psychological projections involving Vance’s and top military brass hidden-from-themselves predication for inflicting grievous harm on the world.

“The most dangerous psychological mistake is the projection of the shadow on to others; this is the root of almost all conflicts” – Carl Jung

We are not confronted with a lone mentally unstable individual causing a scene in public space; we are confronted with individuals, driven by Dark Age worldviews with access to 21st Century mechanized — even civilization ending — weaponry. Vance et. al. are making a (inadvertent) highly disturbing confession that they are driven by — possessed by — a psychological force of odious nature.

The conflict Vance and Christian fundamentalists envisage: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ…descending from the brooding clouds to war with the Antichrist. These troubled, mental ward level head-cases believe as literal the pulp horror fiction related in the lurid imagery of the Book of Revelation, a book scribed by an elderly slave with a raging grievance against Roman rule thus limned a Lovecraftian yarn of wish-fulfillment fantasy of the Roman Empire’s undoing.

Note the glaring irony: Whose belief system underlie the forces undoing the US empire by means of internal political corruption and military overreach?

When JD Vance trims his beard and applies his eyeliner before a mirror, the demonic force of his gruesome imaginings stares........

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