Zeitgeist madness vs Ufological madness

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Readers of this blog know (and are tired of) my plaint that ufology’s ET contingent is delusional; that is, the idea that UFOs have been and are a vanguard of extraterrestrial visitors is nutty.

This punk planet, while a paragon of sentience and creativity, is so far removed from any other possible civilized species (communicatively and cosmologically) that the idea UFOs harbor alien visitors, while possible, I admit, remains laughable when one considers the vastness of our galaxy and the universe in its totality.

Why would an alien species forego missions and travels to other planets more spectacular than ours and on par, perhaps with species who are equal in intelligence and advancement as they are to visit here in the numbers indicated by UFO reports?

[An analogy might go something like this: readers circle/visit this blog and other UFO internet venues. If they see something interesting, they’ll leave a comment or pause a moment but they always move on, ending up congregating at what they find as a more interesting, exciting blog or web-site. But, even then, they eventually move on, perhaps, to return again but never fixate on a venue for any long period of time.]

UFO reports show an inordinate, irrational visitation regimen, especially for a species that one would have to assume is highly intelligent or, at least, highly technological and proficient (sensible/sane).

The built up delusion of ET UFO visitation has been exacerbated by various form of media: sci-fi stories, imaginative interpretation of odd ancient records and accounts, movies, and television; even the journalistic print press furthering the ET meme, sometimes jocularly with a wink, but an ET meme nonetheless.

The ufological delusion (madness) is relatively harmless, not psychopathic by a long shot but still a delusion, intellectually and in the common sense.

But there is, and always has been, a deeper madness which I’ve often touched on here, citing the works of Freud (of course), Foucault, Szasz, Scull, et al.

I don’t think I need to cite examples of human madness since the beginning of mankind.

And those of you awake to social media and newscasts in your area know, all too well, that things are mentally amiss in human society, every society – across the Earth – even now.

Madness is delineated in Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents, many of Jung’s works, including Civilization in Transition, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, and Jung on Evil, Foucault’s History of Madness, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of by Reason, Madness: The Invention of an Idea, and Andrew Scull’s Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine.

Some of the best exegeses of madness, which sprout from mental derangement, of course, but also Evil, are shown in the works of the great, modern American Political Theorist, Hannah Arendt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt]:

Ms. Arendt is mandatory for those who want to understand the current political mayhem in the world, especially via ISIS and other terrorist groups.

She described madness best, perhaps, in her journalistic forays about Adolf Eichmann, who was requisite in Hitler’s extermination policy and the deportation of Jews to die in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Her phrase “the banality of evil” summed up what she saw as the common occurrence of evil or madness in mankind.

(She was often vilified for the use of “banal” for such Evil as that displayed during the NAZI regime, but she was and is exactly right: Evil and madness have become banal.)

Just recently, we Americans have seen the kinds of madness that Foucault liked to deal with, the foolishnesses of men, as depicted in Hieronymus Bosch’s Ship of Fools…

 …the frizzy insanity of the August Solar Eclipse and the frazzled purchase of PowerBall tickets.

More dire, the confrontations about Confederate memorial statues and the overt resurgence of racism in American society.

So, with a tepid recounting of madness (and evil) in human society, let me say that the delusional belief by my fellow ufologists and UFO buffs is rather harmless, but still one of the onion skins of madness that permeates humanity and society.

The belief that ET’s aboard UFOs are visiting here is almost whimsical, if it weren’t tied to that deeper mental malaise: madness (insanity).

RR