This is widespread among academics and political and cultural leaders that sustain the established assumptions behind society and its major institutions. It makes it easier for the few "in the know" to act as "society''s super egos" reacting to supress and deny through utmost secrecy what they would have also denied or preferred not to be exposed to (the undeniable reality of an intelligent extraterrestrial presence) if they had had a choice.
Thus, the few that are at ease with the denial (they prefer the denial) would have also been part of that institutional based group that may be called the "intelligentsia," the cultural leaders that prefer not to know or that blank their eyes or smirk when exposed to probable out-of-the-ordinary extraterrestrial information.
However, more people in all sorts of venues are coming to realize that there's something real to a possible ET presence. Even people working in major institutions privately admit of a possible ET presence but dare not admit it publicly.
To our Earth-bound, conflicted, parochial species held back by dense material needs and restrictions, for which a dichotomous, outmoded logic is the source of its practical decision-making solutions it seems too incredible to admit something like the importance of transdimensional ETI science and the need to know who we are in relation to our cosmic brethren.
In our current - initially transitional - stage adamantly held back by maintaining an excessively simple, dichotomous way of thinking (and feeling) about reality, extraterrestrial contact issues don't seem to be politically urgent and - at this stage - are for the most part relegated to the activities of (often questionable) visionaries without much critical thinking or a good conceptual grasp of the classical material realism that "really matters" to the rest of the world.
This is why (to connect with a more mentally advanced cosmic community that probably thinks in less restrictive terms), a world-wide, evolving, integrative philosophy bringing together the wisdom and genuine discoveries of all eras and peoples (quite likely by using a logic of the included middle) must rise under fundamental, undeniable universal principles replacing the ways of being that were perhaps useful to more primitive, short-term, simple, materialistic, inmediate survival decision-making judged mainly through external means.
That integrative philosophy brings the humanities and the natural sciences together with empirical-experientially attained wisdom of the non-physical spirit realms. It also converges with the finest rational metaphysics and philosophies illustratinf them as compatible with each other. It elicits a deep Non Dual recognition of the essence behind world religions. It is compatible with integrative scientific models like the Quantum Hologram in which information, consciousness, fractal levels of material reality and energy can be consistently brought together.
Without that emerging integrative philosophy (bringing together science and spirituality, the objective, subjective, intersubjective and inter objective) our best wishes won't take root and fructify and we might remain like inmature children, unable to be understood as independently responsible entities unified under universal but open-ended principles achieving sufficient species-wide planetary sovereignty as observed by older cosmic communities expectant of our development and-or willing to use us if we don't develop.
