[cgbg]

If these extraterrestrials are so much smarter than we are then how would dummies like us ever figure out whether they had wisdom or not?

(No answer needed--this is a rhetorical question.) :-)

(The hidden assumption here, of course, is that a few brilliant humans know what is going on while the rest of us are mired in ignorance.)

[Quix]

Not sure what your point is about ignorance. It's deliberate.

Certainly the puppet masters keep us in ignorance for their own ends.

Some say the ET's insist on it. Some say the ET's chafe about it and will reveal themselves to the world at large in their time.

I figure they are mostly--most of them--are in cahoots with satan setting up the global government. And, that in due course, they will either take on the role of saviors of us from ourselves or--conquers scaring us into the global government--or some races one role and others the other role. Both to coerce folks into the global government for easier tyrannical control.