Jeff Holmes: evaluation

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…Even if it is, which I give 5 percent . . . I’ve been saying it’s almost certainly drones, not that the proverbial little green men are inside. But it should be a big, big thing, and it isn’t. That to me is so startling. Brennan can say what he said. It won’t be on the front page of the New York Times. Some number of people will talk about it. To me that’s more remarkable than the phenomenon itself. It’s the lack of interest. “Oh, the Fermi paradox. Well, it turns out, they’ve been here. Oh, whatever. Okay, forget about that one.” Yes. I think that relates back to COVID, too, because in any dramatization of a pandemic, it is so focal. It is the thing that everyone is thinking about all the time, and that has not been the case for — even for someone like me, there were certainly days when I’m not driving through quarantine checkpoints. I’m living my life in my house and trying to keep to myself. Similarly, there have been a number of stories that have come out in 2020 that if you were experiencing the movie version of this, it would be a huge thing that the characters would be listening to on the radio. Everyone would be buzzing about it. They’ve just gone totally unnoticed. I’ve never seen a year like this, right?…

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