Science Fiction writer and quasi-ufologist Mac Tonnies, who died prematurely in October 2009, is in the process of being deified by a few of his colleagues.
The mechanism by which Mr. Tonnies’ friends hope to raise him to the pantheon of the gods is through Mr. Tonnies’ posthumous book, The Cryptoterrestrials, a paean to the idea that a concom- itant, hidden civilization exists on Earth and is responsible for UFO sightings and all the tales of little folk, fairies, ghosts, and other fringe anomalies that have popped up during man’s life on the planet.
Mr. Tonnies was a regular guy, who drank too much coffee and engaged in bizarre musings about life and the peripheral elements that impinge on life.
He wasn’t a particularly original thinker but, rather, an accu- mulator of obtuse materials, which he re-arranged in such a way as to make new goods out of that material.
That’s what he did with Cryptoterrestrials, as Anthony Bragalia points out in a post at The UFO Iconoclast(s), April 9th 2010:
Bragalia's take on Tonnies' book
A cursory scan of Mr. Tonnies blog, Post Human Blues, will further clarify the derivative nature of his thought.
It’s nice that Mr. Tonnies’ friends and fellow-fringers are moving to exalt him, something they hope will happen to them when they pass on we think.
But the effort is futile and moot.
Mr. Tonnies doesn’t have enough cachet outside his inner circle for him to become a deity or even a saint.
Nonetheless, we imagine that Mr. Tonnies is having a good laugh at the idea that he is (or was) a man beloved for ideas that he stumbled upon, while under his perpetually caffeinated state of mind, which allowed him to search the internet in a way that mere mortals are unable to.
May he be remembered as a good man, oblivious to self-promotion and resting in peace, alongside his crypto-imagined race.
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