Sci Fi and the alien agenda

Ok, so maybe not all Sci-Fi, but what we are looking at here is Stanley kubrick and Ridley Scott with maybe a hint of George Lucas and a dash of Steven Spielberg. Apart from a love of special effects what do these masters of the sci-fi genre have in common? Well, they have all had executive producer credits for people who don't technically exist. Now, don't get me wrong, it is not uncommon for films to be funded, the purpose of executive producers, as a tax write off by corporate entities, and hey, if you fund a low budget movie and its becomes massive, thats a bonus, right? So for the corporate it's a no-lose proposition? But is that the real story here? What if that hidden corporate backer wasn't really that corporate? What if it was in fact a government organisation? What if it had an agenda that went beyond simply avoiding tax liabilities? Then maybe it would have an ulterior motive for backing certain films, and maybe it would want the ability to, shall we say, steer the production in a certain direction.

Let's suppose you are a government organisation that knows that alien civilisations are planning to announce their existance, and let's suppose that you aren't entirely happy about this. Maybe you think this is a bad idea for your existing control plans for the population, or you see it as a challenge? Wouldn't it be great if you could encourage the population to view aliens as dangerous infiltrators and a threat to the planet? Wouldn't it be pretty much perfect if your populous believed that they were under threat from any alien engagement? Well, have a look at the output of these giants of the genre. Kubrick on 2001:A Space Odyssey demonstrated the possibility of alien manipulation of humanity, something that doesn't generally play well with the voting public, and coincidentally based on ex British intelligence operative Arthur C Clarkes novel. Then move on to Ridley Scotts epic, Alien, the story of a created bioweapon capable of destroying entire civilisations. Scary stuff, huh?

The idea of the government security services controlling and influencing what we see via the mainstream media is nothing new, but its influence on the way we think about ET and the possibility of Alien life is, and it is in this area that we have to question, just who is creating the images that we interact with? Who is creating our image of alien life? From Gene Rodenberry onwards, we have been conditioned to think a certain way about Alien lifeforms, and it does rather beg the question, why? Just thinking aloud you understand....