Military Industrial Complex

I suppose, at the back of our minds, we knew this already. But it has been brought to front of mind while reading “The Day After Roswell”. The tradeoff of alien technology to reverse-engineer weaponry is no surprise, but the United States has been at pains to keep their secrets exactly that: secret.

I won’t belabour the point, because everybody knows…

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody Knows – Leonard Cohen (1988)

So true.