Are There Not Ethics In Manipulating People Buy their Product or Services

 J. André Faust (July 28, 2021)

We now live in a world where truth has become lies, and lies have become truth.  What is the difference? Propagandists, marketers and communications officers (spin Drs. don't know the difference).  All three exploit our cognitive limitations.  Most are not even conscious of the limitations that we all possess, making it very easy to distort the reality that we perceive.

The only way that we can at least defend ourselves is by understanding what those limitations are.  Most emotions override our rational thinking, so when you see a phrase or an image or anything that elicits an emotional response, that should be a clue that someone is trying to influence our free will.

I recently came across an advertisement attempting to use the persuasion of authority (endorsement by a celebrity).  

The marketers used Facebook as the clickbait to lead a person to what appeared to be a legitimate news media NBC. News story on how Another CBD business was suing David Suzuki because he had a superior product.  (I haven't been able to find any reference of David Suzuki selling CBD Gummies), so that claim may be fictitious.

I looked at the address bar looking for the word NBC. It wasn't there.   I clicked on the NBC logo, and it took me to a site selling CBD Gummies, an American company.  Humm, David is Canadian, and his alleged CBD business is supposed to be Canadian.

What exploits that guttersnipe adviser uses,  1: heuristics, 2: our altruistic 2: desires, our sense of fair play, 3: Generalization of the heuristics. 4. Authority via celebrity ship.

We need to put aside our egos and accept that we can all be fooled if we don't think critically.  Unfortunately, critical thinking is time-consuming, and the Marketers, propagandists, spin Drs'  all know this, which they all use to their advantage to make you believe you have free will when you conform to their persuasion plan.

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Cannot Rule Out Extraterrestrial Intelligence Life Forms

J. André Faust May 23, 2021

Until we have direct contact with ET, we cannot conclude one way or another if there is intelligent life who are technologically superior to us. However, theoretically speaking, the probabilities favour the existence of such ET hanging out having a brewsky somewhere in this Universe or multiple multiverses.

Hypothetically speaking, if we accept that the evolution of life and intelligence develops at the constant of X billion years, then the likelihood of advanced evolution could exist in older galaxies.

Our best calculation to the age of the known Universe is 13.77, or 14 billion years RDN (however, as technology develops, that age is subject to change.)  It has been calculated that our solar system is 4.6 billion years.  Having said that, the earliest galaxies, according to the Hubble telescope, developed about 12 million years ago.

Currently, we do not know the average life span of a star relative to the Universe.  What we do know is that stars are born and die once they have used up their hydrogen.  The best guess that we have is that there appears to be a correlation between the magnitude of a star and its life span.

So, theoretically then, again, assuming that technological evolution occurs at a constant rate 4 billion years after the first galaxy, we have a solar system with a planet whose technological intelligent level we are at.

Eight billion years later, we have earth and its current technology.  That means that the early planet has an additional 4 billion years to evolve. Comparatively, that would make us pretty primitive to the planet whose intelligent life had 4 billion years to evolve.

Suppose we accept Einstein's general theory of relativity, which states that one cannot go faster than light's speed. It would take  ET 4 billion years to reach us; our star would have become a supernova and has become a white dwarf or black hole. Either way, all the inner planets of our solar system would have been consumed by the sun during its red giant phase by the time ET reached us.

If UFOs are indeed visitors, it will take them 4 billion light-years (a light-year is the time  that it would take a photo takes to travel  at a speed of 180,000 miles per second or 300 km per second per year.) Having that capability would suggest a branch of physics that we currently have not yet conceptualized and has yet to be discovered.