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Leave Your Comic Books At Home
This post could be called simply, enough is enough. When given the choice of a comic book or a Joesph Conrad novel, I prefer adult tastes. The field of the paranormal is largely the purview of twelve year olds these days, bur having given myself a choice between simply walking away in disgust, or taking a few well aimed shoots across the bow of the paranormal Titanic versus painting deck chairs on her prow,lets put the situation in simple language, shall we?
I have asked myself a question that one the surface seems to be simple enough, but the answers reflect what became the entangled themes of this brief essay. What has caused the paucity of new theoretical considerations, or intellectual approaches toward the UFO phenomenon in the UFO "community" as well as the scientific community, while the interest lodged between the two, in the general subject of the paranormal by the public has "gone through the roof" in comparative terms?
In the end, this central question has a sobering component which is indirectly touched upon later, the eerie similarity in our current cultural climate toward a previous historical peak, that occurred in very similar economic, and psychological circumstances just prior to the arrival of National Socialism in Germany. Of course whether this similarity further extends into a cyclical revisting of the potential marriage of interests between industrial concerns and the government fed by propaganda at the hands of a seemingly benevolent dictator funded by commercial investors is yet to be seen.
At the same time, despite the recent anticipations that the high expectations of the electorate would be met, at the time of this writing, little has fundamentally changed, other than an increasing parallel to the paranormal field in that misinformation, propaganda, circumstantial claims and rancor in the disputes of claims that seems to have simply recycled mythologies presented as a double bind.
Similarly, and increasingly, most material on UFO's should have a disclaimer: This is a bedtime story of anthropology made out of 100% recycled material. The exopolitical crowd is dumping toxic materials outside of a landfill. The Christians are calling lightning the work of the devil. Yawn...anyone as bored with this impasse on both sides of this artificial divide as I am?
In this I see a distinct glimmer of hope in these throes of dissolution, or is it a process of disillusion, with the cautionary rejoinder that this writer as all sees himself as a reflection of a larger context, as to whether it is accurate or not is a subjectivity prone to the tastes of the reader. This hope against hope came by way of no personal insight but the remembrance of G.I Gurdjieff's observation that in the cycles of civilizations, there is an interim period, comparable to a musical notation known as an interval, that when the old beliefs are no longer tenable while new ones have yet to be seen, all things are possible on the cusp of potential.
The Quantum Revolution
One of the greatest tragedies of the traditional sciences,while being an unintentional one, derived from their completely understandable methodology originating in the studies on everything from Newtonian physics to Charles Darwin which is to dissect, or take apart the constituent aspects or "components" of a locus of manifestation and label them, sort them into what perhaps could be called a measurement of "differences" which bleeds into cultural anthropology..this race differs from and competes with that..this economic system differs from that and of course politicians exploit both sides against the middle using Zarathustra's didactic and polar dualities as a exploitative reductionism.
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