Anechoic Era or Anechoic media
Anechoic Era or Anechoic media (Noun): Imagine a world in which a devastating attack in a federal building would only be reported by media on one side of the political spectrum but not the other. You can tell where you were by how things would echo (or not.)
The era in which you are now able to puzzle over ideas (such as UAP's) as a public intellectual you were previously unable to without reputational damage, but you cannot consider potential solutions to those puzzles (is it aliens? Is China ahead of us? Is it a Defense stunt?)
My belief is that we're entering what I would call an "Anechoic Era", where huge stories that aren't supposed to have an echo, or aren't supposed to reflect in the looking glass, don't. And the issue of reification becomes the critical issue. You feel differently about a story—imagine there was an a massive, let's say, firebombing of a federal courthouse that no major news outlet on the Left would report. You'd be very curious, you'd be looking at it, video of it with your own eyes, but you'd also have the sense of, why is this only showing up in Breitbart and on Fox, and why isn't it on MSNBC? So what we're used to doing is navigating through echolocation as to whether or not things reverberate. And when you enter an Anechoic issue, which could be something like aliens, could be Jeffrey Epstein, could be Geometric Unity, could be the origins of SARS-CoV-2—all of these things aren't behaving naturally, with respect to reification. We're not getting institutional reification for our reality. And what we're seeing with the alien narrative is that we're allowed to puzzle over UFOs, so, the puzzle is allowed to be discussed, but every single possible solution of the puzzle is still forbidden. Are we in contact with aliens? Is the Defense Department trying to raise money? Is this is a disinformation campaign? Is China way in front of us? Everything that we can actually explore as a solution leads to a diminution of our respectability if we have it in public. So, in essence, the anechoic era is upon us. And we're allowed to puzzle through the problems, we're just not allowed to solve the problems or try to solve the problems in public, without an enormous tax on our respectability as public intellectuals.... And that weird place where we're allowed to puzzle but we're not allowed to solve has no name, and we don't have good language for it. So starting today I'm calling it "Anechoic Phenomena", where we're allowed to talk about the problem, but we're not allowed to actually speculate as to what actually occurred.
- Eric Weinstein on Clubhouse, May 21, 2021