This seems so very random, but I think it is not. I've long thought Trump was a "closet truther" and knows or has been told much more than he could possibly admit publicly.
In this case, the crucial factor is that her husband was George P. Putnam, of the--you got it--Salem Witch Putnams.
Of all the shit Trump could have possibly declassified, I don't think this was chosen randomly.
I'm just speculating here, but I think has to do with the actual way human consciousness works, specifically how it decides what to accept as the "truth".
For the vast majority of people, the truth comes from their authorities. In practical terms, for them something is true merely because the authority said it. They never consciously think of it that way, of course, so it's always, "they're the experts" and "do you think they're all lying/stupid" etc etc etc.
If we compare the Earhart case to, say, the Moon landing case, some significant differences are apparent. For the Moon landing, we know what "the answer" is, without doubt. For Earhart, they have left the mystery open.
The Moon landing is tied up in all this other supporting worldview: free world vs commies, the march of discovery, USA #1, the technical/scientific/academic establishment. All that is in turn tied up in emotional investment. It just has to be true. Earhart doesn't have much at all of that same context, just maybe "grrrl power".
So maybe she was picked out as a way to begin to expose the truth because it's relatively trivial. You break the seal on "smart people you trust have kept secrets from you, have lied to you, and could not figure out things they should have."
IOW, if the public can't internalize the truth about whatever Amelia was up to, there is absolutely no point telling them about the Moon landings. They can just draw a line through it on their list.
Do they know these things as explicitly as I've just laid out, or are they operating on instinct? There's no evidence one way or the other. But then, I figured it out so I would gamble that others in that orbit could too.
BTW, I'm going off the theory that she was a spying for the US military before the war. She crashed doing it and they kept silent to avoid exposure. The Japanese captured her and eventually beheaded her. That's a pretty gross story, and if the truth is revealed to be anything like that, people are going to have to alter their worldview to a more realistic one.
This seems so very random, but I think it is not. I've long thought Trump was a "closet truther" and knows or has been told much more than he could possibly admit publicly.
In this case, the crucial factor is that her husband was George P. Putnam, of the--you got it--Salem Witch Putnams.
Of all the shit Trump could have possibly declassified, I don't think this was chosen randomly.
I agree, now the "why? ' though.
I'm just speculating here, but I think has to do with the actual way human consciousness works, specifically how it decides what to accept as the "truth".
For the vast majority of people, the truth comes from their authorities. In practical terms, for them something is true merely because the authority said it. They never consciously think of it that way, of course, so it's always, "they're the experts" and "do you think they're all lying/stupid" etc etc etc.
If we compare the Earhart case to, say, the Moon landing case, some significant differences are apparent. For the Moon landing, we know what "the answer" is, without doubt. For Earhart, they have left the mystery open.
The Moon landing is tied up in all this other supporting worldview: free world vs commies, the march of discovery, USA #1, the technical/scientific/academic establishment. All that is in turn tied up in emotional investment. It just has to be true. Earhart doesn't have much at all of that same context, just maybe "grrrl power".
So maybe she was picked out as a way to begin to expose the truth because it's relatively trivial. You break the seal on "smart people you trust have kept secrets from you, have lied to you, and could not figure out things they should have."
IOW, if the public can't internalize the truth about whatever Amelia was up to, there is absolutely no point telling them about the Moon landings. They can just draw a line through it on their list.
Do they know these things as explicitly as I've just laid out, or are they operating on instinct? There's no evidence one way or the other. But then, I figured it out so I would gamble that others in that orbit could too.
BTW, I'm going off the theory that she was a spying for the US military before the war. She crashed doing it and they kept silent to avoid exposure. The Japanese captured her and eventually beheaded her. That's a pretty gross story, and if the truth is revealed to be anything like that, people are going to have to alter their worldview to a more realistic one.