The Consternation in our Current Civilization (and Ufology)

Copyright 2018, InterAmerica, Inc.

A piece by Alex Ross in the August 27, 2018 NewYorker, Page 81 ff., about how fractured the music world, -- formal composition mostly – has become is a salutational article supporting a view that civilization itself is fractured.

Mr. Ross refers to the fractured art world (and its paintings) as the rest of us in the United States are steamed at the fractured political system.

And in the world of Ufology, which has always been cracked, the UFO phenomenon has become more fractured, in evaluation, that ever before.

While the formal music world is touting and winning Pulitzer prizes for noises and cacophony, even hip-hop efforts, there seems to be a reactionary movement afoot to address the deviant issues that have arisen among composers and their audiences.

In the art and literature worlds there seems to be a desire to return to representational creations, painters and writers providing, again, works that display a somewhat normal reality.

In the UFO-soaked world too there appears to be a discarding of the outré explanations and an elimination of much talk about alien abductions (with its vulgar suggestions of probes and bizarre medical exams).

The ETH (Extraterrestrial Hypothesis) remains the fixation of UFO addicts and Roswell, as I keep noting, still has a beating heart for the more moronic of UFO followers.

But the general UFO discourse remains fractured, with UFO diviners striving to be recognized as worthy of attention by resorting to UFO (mostly Roswell) minutiae to augment their flaccid intellectual prowess.

While the world outside Ufology strives to correct itself and its current madnesses, the UFO world remains locked in an internecine struggle to see who can come up with the most obscure UFO event or detail of any previous sighting, mostly because current UFO sightings are so pathetically paltry when they come to be reported, the old cases enriched by accreted lore and misbegotten details, again Roswell the prime example.

Today’s world madness is not unlike that which Foucault regales us with in his book Madness and Civilization about the follies of mankind surrounding the co-called Age of Enlightenment.

Ufology’s madness is quite like the foolishnesses outlined by Foucault in his book: silly recreations and exploits that are harmless pretty much but indicative of an errant mental condition in human society.

We who address the UFO phenomenon are stunned by the asininity of our ufological comrades but in an arena where everyone and no one is an expert, that’s all we have to work or contend with, sad as that may be.

Mr. Ross’s New Yorker piece lets us no that we are not alone in the cockeyed zeitgeist that encompasses us. Even the cultured among humankind are as stupid as the people who think that UFOs are outer space craft piloted by alien beings from elsewhere in the cosmos and Roswell was a spot where a few of them met their doom.

RR