Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.
We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.
What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.
Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.