Everyone, and we mean everyone, in the UFO community wants (or needs) attention it seems.
No one wants to quietly examine the UFO phenomenon; UFO aficionados would rather get a Google listing or some note of recognition from Anomalist.com, Stuart Miller’s Alien Worlds News, or anywhere else in the UFO universe.
Blogs are intrinsically superficial, and used for notoriety mostly, but even books, films, and television shows – the History channel’s “UFO Hunters” is an example – are geared to attention-getting rather than thorough analyses of UFOs.
This is also the case with science nowadays, but it has always been so with flying saucers and UFOs.
Aside from Donald Keyhoe’s purposeful tomes – to get a military admittance of the UFO reality – most books, early on and ever since, have been used to provide or gather some notice for the author; the truth of UFOs damned in the process.
If there is a hunkered-down ufologist – one studying the phenomenon seriously and in depth – we don’t know who that is, and no one has yet to come forth from a sub rosa incarceration to enlighten the world about the UFO mystery.
Jacques Vallee’s recent appearance on the Paracast show came and went without any significant notice or new insight.
His 15 minutes of fame continues, but is in its last seconds.
Because the UFO enigma remains essentially unexplainable, it’s no wonder that persons interested in the phenomenon go for self-glorification rather than a drill-down to the core of the mystery. They are frustrated and ego-diminished.
Jerry Clark has thrown in the towel, seeking answers to the era of early and formative Christianity.
Dick Hall has retired to rumination about the [American] Civil War.
Others have resorted to mining the UFO dregs for any clue that may have been missed by those preceding them. (That’s futile of course, but it has the appearance, in some quarters, of being productive.)
No, ufology and the UFO conundrum are without serious investigators and analyzers.
The goal now is to get one’s name plastered all over the internet, because that’s where immortality lies, or so it seems…
4 comments:
So you think Peter Davenport and MUFON volunteers are not serious investigators. Well you right about one thing, superficial blogs... it seems your one of them. Next time do your homework.
Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blogs
Joseph:
We don't denigrate Davenport's efforts, or MUFON's; we do demean their results.
(Check out the MUFON/Walters/Gulf Breeze fiasco for instance.)
You are a full-fledged believer, which is okay with is, but you should stop being a cheerleader for the incompetent.
"No one wants to quietly examine the UFO phenomenon".
With that said, it simply means that you want it all to go away.
Wouldn't it be easier on yourself and 'others' if you just went away, and let the rest think and do for themselves?
People naturally have aspirations and strong desires to achieve something on a personal basis. If it means attempting to get attention to their work, then what's wrong with that? If UFOs and aliens are their hobby, such is the case for the armchair ufologist, more power to them if they decide to start blogging because they feel like their accomplishing something.
To feel good about yourself means achieving exactly what you set out to do. Why would you prefer such an act were silenced. I absolutely do not understand your statement about blogs being used for notoriety. Oh my gosh, what is wrong with wanting notoriety now? We're human, we need to be fed and psychologically nourished. Notoriety is a feel good chemical that accomplishes just that. Are you going to state next that if people had it all together they wouldn't want to seek notoriety?
About Jacques Valle you said, "His 15 minutes of fame continues, but is in its last seconds". To make a statement such as this, you sound like you're jealous. Now there's something worth looking at if you're so together and personally have no need to seek notoriety or any other kind of 'feel good' fulfillment.
And yes, Joe is absolutely right, your blog is superficial. Of course you already know that don't you.
I have read The UFO Iconoclast(s) almost as far back as your first article. I read them because they were written very well. Anymore however, you seem to have a nut about ufology and the people within. You can't change such things, you can only comment on them so why bother. That's why I say, why don't you go away.
I think you need to check yourself and stop worrying about the other 6.5 billion.
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AC:
The Iconoclasts, compatriots of ours but not connected to this blog, are the UFO agnostics within the RRRGroup.
We, the Provocateur(s), deal with the social-psychology of ufology.
The RRRGroup's skeptical believers post at The UFO Reality.
There may be intellecual dissension among us but we remain cohesive when it comes to the idea that UFOs are (perhaps) a profound mystery that takes on different guises according to the perspectives of those concerned with it, and should be addressed in various ways.
To suggest we go away seems a bit much, a kind of censureship that betokens a desire to ensure UFOs are only for a select few believers and/or fanatics who don't like oblique views or "outsiders."
That's not how it works in The United States, as Tocqueville noted in his Democracy in America.
Sorry...
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