“Those who engage in public corrections of this sort often are looking to feel good about themselves, and, according to Benoît Monin, a psychology professor at Stanford University, displays of language all-knowing-ness provide a ready-made, two-pronged opportunity to do so. ‘The way we evaluate our competence is relative to other people,’ he says. ‘If I need to feel good about my language skills, one way that I could do that would be to give myself evidence that my language skills are awesome. Another is to give myself evidence that other people’s language skills suck. So by putting down other people, I can feel better about myself.’”
The radio tower asked Rafael to identify himself and he replied asking for a private channel to talk to them. When they gave him the new channel, they asked him again to identify himself and what his location was. Rafael replied, “He is speaking because he is ordered to do so, that is, this is his voice, he is speaking but not of his own free will. We are using him as if he were… yes, we are using him as a microphone. We don’t matter much, nor where we come from, nor where we’re going, just know that we are beings from this universe to which you belong. Our planet is many light-years away, but I’ll repeat that before it becomes confusing: we are physically the same as you, I repeat that all races in the universe are physically the same.”
It also said they had always been here, and that compared to them, humans were primitive. That they were watching humanity from the skies and that humanity had to change or an irreversible global catastrophe would occur. They also said they meant no harm to the pilot and that when he woke up, he would not remember how he ended up here or anything having to do with them.
The air traffic controller asked if they were so advanced, why were they speaking Spanish and they replied that they could speak any language. Then that air traffic controller, who happened to be trilingual, started speaking German, then English and the aliens speaking through Rafael replied in both languages. Rafael himself only spoke Spanish.
Then it said, “You are not alone in the universe, and there are other races that we are keeping away from you, but we are watching you”. And the transmission ended at 11:29 AM
“So bullshitting isn’t just nonsense. It’s constructed in order to appear meaningful, though on closer examination, it isn’t. And bullshit isn’t the same as lying. A liar knows the truth but makes statements deliberately intended to sell people on falsehoods. bullshitters, in contrast, aren’t concerned about what’s true or not, so much as they’re trying to appear as if they know what they’re talking about. In that sense, bullshitting can be thought of as a verbal demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect—when people speak from a position of disproportionate confidence about their knowledge relative to what little they actually know, bullshit is often the result.”
“There are different reasons why people bully, including wanting to dominate others and improve their social status, having low self-esteem and wanting to feel better about themselves, and lacking remorse or failing to recognize their behavior as a problem.”
Low self-esteem is when someone lacks confidence about who they are and what they can do. They often feel incompetent, unloved, or inadequate. People who struggle with low self-esteem are consistently afraid about making mistakes or letting other people down.
Having self-esteem issues can be detrimental to your health and negatively affect your personal and professional relationships. There are many reasons why you may have low self-esteem — your genes, how and where you grew up, and other life circumstances all play a role.
“It’s so bizarre watching him play to his base that thinks that he cares about them and it’s actually the people that he cares about the fucking least. If you’re talking about his core being a majority white middle-class people, what I don’t understand is how in the fuck do you feel like you relate to a billionaire who has never known struggle his entire fucking life?”
