On Monday, September 20, NBC will launch a new dramatic series, The Event. In it, Blair Underwood stars as what X-Conference organizer Steve Bassett would call "the disclosure president:" that Commander-in-Chief to whom it falls to announce to the world that our planet is being engaged by extraterrestrial intelligence.
Subsequent episodes will address the fallout of the President's announcement.
Rumor has it (in ufology circles, anyway) that The Event is the latest in a long line of infotainments designed to raise the curtain ever-so-slowly on truths that many will find too terrible to contemplate. We're being acclimatized, in other words, to minimize the number of suicides, riots, business failures and bedwettings that are expected to occur when our government reverses its 60-plus-year-old policy of deflection and denial.