Hmm so the idea is that unless mankind becomes convinced that the earth is flat, there's no way they will reject their new alien overlord..
.. and that overlord is coming regardless because its eschatology.
Hmm...
I just think of the war of the worlds radio broadcast, I know snopes and whatever says that's an urban legend, but my great grandmother believed it happened.
I think unless you become aware that the government is actively deceiving you to believe in a false model with false life in it, it will be hard for "logical and scientific" people to see through the overlord and reject it. Some may even find a way to work the alien into their religious beliefs and accept it.
Or aliens are just to sell things, although the devil worshipers describe their demons to look similar in appearance to what we regard as aliens.
So if you are connecting dots in your garage, the Illuminati promotes demons (their perception of them) as aliens.
Why so much emphasis on ET if there is no ET?
Money. The idea of alien life has been selling comic books, movies, tshirts and lunchboxes for a long time. It sells a false sense of superiority and intelligence in the form of conspiracy theories, and in the case of NASA it buys public support for exploration. The people who really want to send probes to Mars want to do geology, not look for Martians. The people who really want to build bigger radio telescopes want to study galaxy formation, not listen for alien radio stations. But most of that is publicly funded, and sheeple want excitement. Geology not so exciting.
Y'all want excitement too, and I suppose it's more exciting to reject thousands of years of collective learning if it means you get to think of yourself as more clever and better informed than 99.9999% of everyone else. That smug feeling sells too.
I wish you didn't believe NASA sent probes and rovers to mars. Haven't you seen the comparison shots to devil island and other uninhabited areas with a red filter on?
We aren't rejecting "thousands of years of collecting learning", we reject less than 500 years of government propaganda. They supply the data, and our learning is memorization and regurgitation. It's humbling to know everything you believed was a lie, and that most everyone believes it because we are easily deceived beings. It doesn't make me feel smug, but it does prevent me from having low self-esteem about my intelligence.