Earth as a Shithole Planet -- from a Universal Perspective? ?

Understanding why there are no extraterrestrial visitors

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Introduction

Much has been recently made in the media about the culture of silence associated with sexual harassment. There are calls for urgently breaking that silence.

The concern here is the nature of the silence in that case as it might relate to to other forms of harassment than those on which the focus has now been placed. In particular there is the harassment of men by women -- or is that a myth? There is also the harassment of men-on-men, adults-on-minors, humans-on-animals, for example. All to be set aside in the light of current priorities?

Arguably the debate about silence, and presumably any such debate, is thus crafted to sustain the silence about other forms of harassment -- thereby framed to be of relative insignificance, to the disadvantage of those thereby cast into the shadows.

Of related interest is the role of the media and advertising in this process -- irrespective of how they are controlled, or may be alleged to be controlled and manipulated in support of various agendas. Of specific interest is the degree to which advertising and propaganda seek to attract and focus attention -- as with all who engage in harassment. This process may be usefully described using metaphors deplored in relation to sexual harassment of women -- "grabbing", "pestering", "grooming", and the like. In this sense it can be said that the advertising industry is highly complicit in sexual harassment, most strikingly of men -- an irony given the focus of the controversies of the associated debate.

There is however a curious process to be recognized whereby "advertising", "sexual harassment of women" and "sexual harassment of men" each borrow metaphors from the others in describing the techniques exploited and deplored. However, whether as advertisers, women or men, each claims a form of innocence and seeks to deny complicity in "harassment" -- most notably through cultivating a culture of silence. These processes are also evident in the more devious aspects of propaganda, inculcation, and codes of silence or secrecy. Strangely these are also evident in metaphors relating to degrees of coverage or cover-up -- ironically also central to provocation of harassment (** media bias)

The concern here follows from a more general concern with what remains "unsaid" in public and private discourse (Global Strategic Implications of the "Unsaid", 2003). More specifically it follows from criticism of the recent Golden Globes event and the purported takeover by radical feminists (Golden Globes Confusing Cleavage, Hype and Hypocrisy One-way harassment -- OK -- I am attracted -- Now what? 2018). cover-up

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