Extraterrestrial Hypotheses as Contemporary and Anagalous Socio-Mythos Construct of the Pop Cultural Milieu
From the Saucerian Outsider blog, this item came my way:
The Explanatory Theory of the Supposed Extraterrestrial Hypotheses as Contemporary and Anagalous Socio-Mythos Construct of the Pop Cultural Milieu
Average citizens in Western, non-Western (Occidental) Industrial and Third, Fourth and emergent Fifth World countries still cling to specific religious, spiritual, philosophical systems involving “aliens” from other worlds. These tales vary yet sub-currently share similarities of iconography. The enthusiastic mavens of UFOlogy mistake these symbols of mere cultural communications for proof of alien (ie extraterrestrial) beings that are the causes for seemingly mysterious and conspiratorial events: cattle “mutilations”alien “abductions,”crop circles, etc. Whereas in point of fact, all these occurrences are nothing more than unfortunate yet solidly prosaic occurrences lacking in any so-called “Fortean,” paranormal, anomalous or UFOlogical basis.
We know that these interpretative subjective experiences are nothing more than mundane events containing several elements of easily explainable and verifiable (hence: real) data that nonetheless, due to human frailty as well as a grossly undereducated general population, persist in being presented as paranormal or UFOlogical to the detriment of society and human advancement in terms of critical thinking.This severely and grossly prohibits the otherwise innate biological imperative towards quantum leaps in humanisticonic evolutionary advancement.
My immediate reaction on reading the first couple paragraphs, despite its ostensible “skeptibunnical” orientation was, who the fuck wrote this piece of crap? It’s not even a good parody of stilted academese, and reads like what it is: a silly rant by yet another person who aspires to the “glamorous” world of ufology.*
(So, keep it up, Ray-Gun. You’ll be lecturing back-to-back with Michael Salla and Stan Friedman in Kona, and swimming with the dolphins before you know it. Really and truly. Watch the spelling and grammatical errors though, and avoid the made-up terminologies.)
I heard that Ms. Lee is writing for that rag, UFO Magazine, now. Bet that’s a badge of pride in her universe.
*All that glisters is not gold; gilded tombs do worms enfold.
On the one hand I’m glad to see Mr’s Lee getting her name (or whatever) into print. She aspires to be the new super- female -Ufologest of our age, although this gender thing’s gone out of style and no one really cares what sex a writer is anymore. Anyone who’s not a noob and completely hung up on the subject. The gender wars are over! Anyone who’s still subscribing to the idea that it’s a man’s world is needs to have their head examined (take that how you like.) – so says the Odd Emperor.
On the other hand…..
Heh!
>although this gender thing’s gone out of style and no one really cares what sex a writer is anymore.
Indeed, if we reference Pearl S. Buck, Louisa May Alcott, The Brontes, Mary Shelley, etc., women have been making their mark in literature for a long time. Although characterizing UFO scribbles as “literature” would be something of a disservice to that great body of work…
As for the gender thing, I think there’s still a glass ceiling in certain areas of “corporate America,” but even that is changing, slowly but surely.
As far women in ufology go, there are great multitudes of highly motivated women out there who are smarter than whips, but they are in academia or industry or they own their own business or they are writing the great American novel, or doing something other than ufology. It’s not like ufology is some sort of rewarding career a person aspires to – and this is attested to by the fact that the only people making money on it are the shysters of ufology, or those who write reasonably well and weave a conspiracy theory out of a jumble of shit and shinola. I would never be comfortable selling that sort of stuff, myself.
Oh come on! You write fiction don’t you? What the hell is that all about? Being a shyster, a shit dealer- a liar! The ONLY difference is is, we don’t lie to ourselves and we don’t lie to the audience. The audience knows that we are making shit up.
That’s the difference between most UFO “researcher/writers” and fiction authors. UFO writers are doing the same exact thing, some of them know it and lie willfully, some of them truly believe what they are saying (most of those types are not successfully, Richard Shaver is a good example of that ilk.)
What irks me is that much of the audience doesn’t know or cannot comprehend that they are being lied to. The willful types are simply ripping people off and are beneath contempt, the believers are just being pathetic.
Then you have the relative handful of brave souls who actually follow the data to wherever it leads them. Most of them are not very successful (so far as making money in the field.) Most of them are held in high contempt by the rest of the clowns in the field and the public at large because they don’t deliver the breathless tabloid revelations.
Can you guess which one’s I’d like to hang around with at a convention?