Orson Welles had people jumping out windows in his 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ science fiction classic “War of the Worlds” because they feared the Martian invasion was actually occurring.
The historic milieu of 1898, when Wells published his story, may explain its dramatic impact in 1938. Bad news was causing overwrought emotionalism: the Great Depression, Hitler’s international belligerence, and ironically enough the 1937 Hindenburg explosion, which was the first live disaster broadcast . Current events instigated psychic preparation for mass delusion. The radio broadcast hoax provided the precipitating event.
Today, our political leaders are attempting to recreate Wells’ (Orson changed the spelling of his last name to match the author’s) mass delusion of 1938. After allowing the Chinese espionage dirigible to float over most, if not all, of our ICBM missiles, B-52 bomber sites, and military installations, POTUS consults with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretaries of Defense, State, and Justice.
According to our Mainstream Media, a collection of the greatest military, strategic and political minds of modern history. Their meeting results in the earth-shattering decision to shoot three more objects over our airspace out of the sky, originally identified as UFOS. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief that the potential Martian invasion or not Chinese attack had been prevented.
In a few days, it becomes clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a hoax, equal to the Great Hoax of 1938, had been perpetrated on the American public. There were no Martians; there were not even any Chinese balloons. The MSM Greatest Cabinet Ever, using our most advanced jet fighters with at least four $400,000 missiles, destroyed one of our own weather balloons and a child’s scientific experiment while the third balloon is unexplained to date. Not surprisingly, our boneheaded leaders are unable to recover the debris.
You cannot make this insanity up.
