Ufology: The Denial of its Death
Copyright 2017, InterAmerica, Inc.
In many quarters of the UFO community reside persons who
know that ufology and the UFO topic are dying or, actually, dead.
Some UFO buffs refuse to accept the finality of their
“hobby.”
They fall into the category of “deniers” who, in the Psychiatric
Dictionary (often cited here) refuse “to admit the reality of” ufology’s
death.
They refuse “to acknowledge the presence or existence of”
the truth which is “Known … as negation, denial being “a primitive defense,
consisting of an attempt to disavow the existence of an unpleasant reality.”
“ … denial must ignore data [presented] to the perceptory
system and garnered by the memory apparatus.”
Such denial appears “in persons whose ego is weak or
disturbed (as in psychoses)."
[Page 199, italics in text]
Some UFO addicts, acting like vultures (me?), scrounge on
the bones of ufology which are, in 2017, devoid of meat.
The recent revival of MJ-12 like material smacked of a
ufological zombie, attracting even the most cynical of UFO buffery, and the
pending gathering in Roswell for the annual anniversary of the 1947 “incident”
may be likened to a wake.
John Keel, and many after him, have remarked on ufology’s
demise but the deniers persist in their delusion that ufology isn’t dead, much
as society refuses to accept the prospect of human death:
“An important contributor to the denial of death thesis was
British anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, who first popularized the notion that
conversation about death constitutes a taboo. His article ‘The Pornography of
Death’, originally published in 1955 and reprinted in Death, grief and mourning
quickly became a classic in the death and dying literature.” [The denial of death thesis: sociological
critique and implications … by Camilla Zimmermann and Gary Rodin,
Palliative Medicine 2004]
We UFO addicts have got to come to full realization that
ufology is moribund, at least, and we should be looking at the topic of UFOs
archaeologically or paleontologically, not as a vibrant, vital, alive
enterprise.
UFOs and ufology are not coming back to vivid existence,
even if some keep intoning the pathetic prayer of “disclosure.”
The topic is kaput. Let’s perform the autopsy and move on.
[Image above from wordofdday]
RR
posted by RRRGroup at
Saturday, June 24, 2017
8 Comments:
Dead? Perhaps lingering with the last drip of morphine to dull the pain. And based on human nature (not ET's nature) the hopes for a miracle.
Despite the funereal ambiance of the intellectual thoughts regarding the Ufological hospice "patient", I've notice a trend over the past few years of those poor practitioners attempting to develop a distorted "unified theory" of everything paranormal.
This illusive theory attempts to enjoin the dynamics of UFOs, Big Foot, Loch Ness, and ghosts as part and parcel of the same.
I'm sure that Quantum Mechanics will be the last vestige, from a reductionist point of view, to explain everything paranormal...which I'll not hold my breath.
By
Tim Hebert, at Saturday, June 24, 2017
The quest for understanding the weird aspects of life, Tim, runs apace; everyone (science too as you suggest) is struggling to find meaning in the elusiveness (about lots of things) that engulfs us.
The difference, as I see it, is that ufology is a corpse being examined to the point that the "body" is eviscerated beyond recognition, while the other forensics applied to paranormality, et cetera, remain, for now, vibrant and kicking.
But this too shall pass, as there may be some things we are not meant to know. A book I have, Forbidden Knowledge, touches on this.
RR
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RRRGroup, at Saturday, June 24, 2017
It is easy to proclaim that a topic is 'dead'. It is still a risky thing to do. It is true that ufology and UFOs are in a very quiet state for the moment, perhaps many moments, perhaps months or years.
But a spark can easily set it alight once more. I personally cannot see UFOs & ufology ever returning to the halcyon days of the 1950s or 60s, but it is safer to regard it as dormant rather than dead.
Yes, a few conferences and a few pressure groups will continue. But so what? As long as governments and official science keep their distance, as they do at present, ufology is, to all intents and purposes, in a deep comatose state.
But don't forget, the search for life elsewhere WILL continue, in some form.
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cda, at Sunday, June 25, 2017
I'm noticing CDA that UFO aficionados like to talk about the topic but few -- very few -- like to investigate or offer ideas as to what UFOs are or what's happened to the subject.
A lot of gab but little else.
I see UFOs and ufology as moribund, as noted, not quite dead yet, but both on life support, that's for sure.
RR
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RRRGroup, at Sunday, June 25, 2017
Hey Buddy! We are still so close, as always, and just to add my recapitulation.
zo's "UFO" curse: There aren't any real "UFOs" of any kind and there never were.
There is no "UFO" phenomenon. That's all one needs to know about this non-issue.
It's never been anything but new-age wishfulness and pseudoscience-fictioneering.
And there are the scientific-realist skeptics who told you so and explained why.
The only substance the topic has ever had is the evidence and logic of debunking.
By
zoamchomsky, at Monday, June 26, 2017
I'm with you Zoam, in spirit anyway.
RR
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RRRGroup, at Monday, June 26, 2017
That's a good idea. It's obvious to me if we let it go, if we throw it away and never look back, the UFOs will get miffed and come running back in to our lives where we can live half scared; half intrigued of "what is happening...OMG".
By
Unknown, at Monday, June 26, 2017
"It's never been anything but new-age wishfulness and pseudoscience-fictioneering. And there are the scientific-realist skeptics who told you so and explained why. The only substance the topic has ever had is the evidence and logic of debunking."
The Null and Psychosocial hypotheses exist outside of and address the entire "UFO" subject and subculture. I would like someone to tell me what is left unexplained.
By
zoamchomsky, at Thursday, July 06, 2017
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