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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Roswell: A Dead Horse!

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I, and a few other UFO buffs, are on a mission to make UFO followers obsessed with Roswell understand that they have become quasi-psychotic with their compulsion to address Roswell minutiae over and over again and again.

I’m not writing about my pals Kevin Randle and Nick Redfern. They have invested lots of time and research on the incident and continue to refine their earlier findings.

I’m addressing the clods who slip on to Kevin’s blog or Mysterious Universe to indulge in claptrap about the only UFO saga they know a few things about.

These morons keep the Roswell mess alive, abetted, I admit by my pals, but in a way that is not conducive to moving forward with speculation about the irritating phenomenon.

The sheer madness of the Roswell obsession is obvious to anyone with a sense of intellectual decency.

The few of us incensed by the Roswell goofiness are akin to the little Dutch boy hoping to keep Holland free of flooding by putting his finger into a small crack in the country’s protective dike. Our efforts are for nil.

Especially since a few persons who should now better keep rewarding the Roswellian nitwits by responding to their utter nonsense, rewarding them in a way that causes them, like Pavlov’s dogs, to salivate and keep their inane comments coming.

(A review of B.F. Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning is a must for those helping fuel the Roswell foolishness.)

I, and a few others, will start to name the Roswell idiots, hoping to shame them into quiescence. (I have a Facebook page that already does that.)

RR 

posted by RRRGroup at Wednesday, August 22, 2018

14 Comments:

  • Why not blame Kevin Randle himself? It is he and he alone who keeps reviving the subject over and over, accompanied by a picture of his latest book thereon. It is only when he does this that prompts me, and others, to respond. OK, I agree that I ought to know better by now.

    By Blogger cda, at Thursday, August 23, 2018  

  • Rich -

    CDA's criticism of a picture of my latest book on the posts is inaccurate. First, my latest is Case MJ-12 Updated and the one before that was Encounter in the Desert. Picture is at the side and appears next to every new post.

    And is it really necessary for CDA to respond with his same tired song. We've heard it, memorized it, and know that nothing we say will ever change his mind.

    Just a couple of random thoughts about this.

    By Blogger KRandle, at Thursday, August 23, 2018  

  • I would have thought that Roswell was "dead" after the total failure of the Roswell Slides roll out. Only wishful thinking has kept it around if at all. Again...wishful thinking!

    By Blogger Tim Hebert, at Thursday, August 23, 2018  

  • Kevin:

    Your Roswell posts are fine with me and almost every one else.

    You provide updated and new information which is your forte and helps clarify the besotted incident.

    It's the hangers-on and sycophants who keep regurgitating old material that you keep having to respond to and clarify. They never offer anything new, just the old tripe that they've memorized years ago and can't move away from.

    I, too, am surprised at CDA's perpetual argumentation. He's at an age when I should think he'd like to offer something new about UFOs. But no...he's stuck in an adolescent time-warp -- his second childhood.

    RR

    By Blogger RRRGroup, at Thursday, August 23, 2018  

  • My good sense says stay out of this, but I love these guys so much.

    Kevin D, Chris A, Knock It Off! You're both too intelligent and gentlemanly for this to continue.

    Now back to Rich Reynolds' futile search for REAL "UFOs."

    Hey Tim! Love you much. Always, Dwaine. (Scots-Irish, another sort of Cajun) ;-D

    By Blogger zoamchomsky, at Saturday, August 25, 2018  

  • RR and Zoam:

    Methinks there are rather a lot of "terminological inexactitudes" being told in these Roswell discussions, or debates. [Reference a certain UK politician of the past].

    By Blogger cda, at Sunday, August 26, 2018  

  • >>"terminological inexactitudes" being told in these Roswell discussions<<

    I have no doubt of it, cda. Nice phrase, Winston!

    Kevin;

    You're probably way ahead of me on this, but have you written or have plans to write a book that treats the Roswell saga completely as folklore? It's nearly forty years since this last and greatest "crashed spaceship" myth was created, so maybe a book placing Roswell in the historical context of a century of "crashed spaceship" stories would be a worthy project.

    Something like what we've discussed on your blog: your "Crash" book meets Saler and Moore's "Roswell" book, a social psychology of more than a century of "spaceship crashes" finally blossoming into the Roswell myth as told by a renowned "UFO" journalist. It could find a completely new audience in addition to your usual readers.

    Best always, zo

    By Blogger zoamchomsky, at Sunday, August 26, 2018  

  • Rich;

    Consider that cda is a man who appreciates truth, knowledge, the products of the scientific method, our culture and civilization, and who despises nonsense, fallacious thinking, and pseudoscience. Isn't all that worth being "argumentative" about? I think so.

    These are just birthing--or death--pains. Either people like you, the great Jim Oberg, Robert Sheaffer and Kevin Randle or my huge friend Peter Brookesmith or astronomer Ian Ridpath (brilliant minds who have done more than could be reasonably expected on such a airey topic) will create something new out of this putrid space-age "UFO" nightmare--or it will die sometime soon in the early 21st century.

    Bring It On!

    Or so be it.

    By Blogger zoamchomsky, at Sunday, August 26, 2018  

  • Zoam:

    Ufology will never die. Blogs such as this will ensure it is kept alive. It will undergo inevitable change from time to time, but immortality is certain. Likewise Roswell will never die, the reason being that as soon as something new pops up, gets a brief period of attention and then dies, another piece of news replaces it then dies, and so on.

    It is a self-replicating process. The Loch Ness Monster still lives (I think), as does Bigfoot. Time for a revival of the Bermuda Triangle, eh?

    By Blogger cda, at Monday, August 27, 2018  

  • CDA,

    Your describing both a self licking ice cream cone and a weed...

    By Blogger Tim Hebert, at Monday, August 27, 2018  

  • Roswell. I get that American culture, especially after having secured that coveted place on top of the food chain after World War II, sees things from a, well, white, male Americanocentric victorious point of view.

    Ufology is an American white, middle-class, male, commercial export product, as are Coca Cola, horror movies, rock 'n roll, Hollywood movies and in the background the grinding cycles of eternal warfare in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

    But in the folklore of crashed saucer tales - is there not found just one story on the entire globe that can compete with Roswell in strength and folkloric resonance? This is telling.

    Best,

    Theo

    By Blogger theo163, at Wednesday, August 29, 2018  

  • Chris;

    You're right of course that it's media--blogs like this, a constant stream of "UFO" books, magazines and late-night radio--that keep the "UFO" myth alive. They always have, they created it. But we can always wish and hope that somehow this popular delusion, mere entertainment and at best meta-religion, can finally be transformed into something significant, truly revealing about ourselves, something scientific.

    And yes, your, our, my continual and warranted criticism of "UFO" myth advocates' chief modus operandi: Assume the "UFO" answer; Ignore the obvious; Appeal to ignorance and the impossible conspiracy, will always be deemed "argumentative" by those still entranced by--locked inside of--the "UFO" myth and delusion.

    These fundamentals are integral to the myth, have been since 1896. But just as the "crashed saucer" sub-myth stewed for over a century before Roswell was born, the conspiracy aspect of the "UFO" myth finally came full-blown to the fore as Roswell, the ultimate impossible "UFO" conspiracy.

    You're the Best, Chris!

    By Blogger zoamchomsky, at Friday, August 31, 2018  

  • Ah, but Zoam, the UFO myth, minus Roswell, is so juicy, like the Greek myths....well sorta.

    So I suspect some of us will continue to be mesmerized by the mythos. Yep.

    RR

    By Blogger RRRGroup, at Friday, August 31, 2018  

  • I'm glad you added "well sorta" because the "UFO" myth and Greek myths are examples of the two different senses of "myth." One is an ancient legend usually involving human interaction with the fictional supernatural. And the other is a modern false belief about the world that is widely held to be true, a delusion, something that has very far to go in becoming the first kind of mythology.

    But I don't think it ever will. Just as belief in "UFOs" is pseudoscientific, its other aspect is only meta-religious, it's all pretend, just empty gestures made by a few new-agers in silly costumes.

    By Blogger zoamchomsky, at Tuesday, September 04, 2018  

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