Ufology and the current British apathy?

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Harold Bloom, the great literary critic and writer, who died last October (2019), has been remembered in a few TLS [Times Literary Supplement) pieces for its November 22, 2019 issue.

In the second essay by Elaine Showalter [Page 7] is this:

“ … Bloom … told readers of Eurozone [he had] written British literature off his list. ‘It’s an absolutely dead culture. It no longer has any poets. It no longer has any novelists, it cannot produce a composer or a painter anymore.’”

And this is also true when it comes to UFOs or anything ufological.

Aside from Nick Pope’s ubiquitous appearances on American TV and Issac Koi’s accumulation of UFO materials from everywhere, Brits – Nick Redfern an “American resident” and long-timer Jenny Randles as vibrant exceptions – are no longer telling UFO followers anything new or noteworthy.

Brtish ufologists don’t even provide commentary on UFO events and sightings that are hot and interesting from anywhere in the world, including the British Isles.

Once upon a time, British UFO mavens were the fount of wisdom and novelty when it came to the phenomenon. But no more. Harold Bloom has it right.

Yet, who does still find UFOs to be worthy of note? Not in Canada, where only a few still ruminate on the topic, Chris Rutkowski and MJ Banias among them. (Stan Friedman now gone.)

France is full of skeptics, but can claim Jacques Vallee as one of theirs, but that’s about it.

Spain has José Caravaca and his followers and a slew of newbies or old-timers engaged on Facebook.

South America and Mexico are full of UFO writers, “researchers,” and enthused UFO fans, too many to cite here.

Russia’s UFO enthusiasts remain under the radar as if Stalin were still alive.

And, aside from the United States, few of this world’s rabid UFOers are making waves or contributing anything worthy of attention or consequence, sadly.

But the UFO enigma insists upon stoking curiosity and interest in other quarters, however, not in Britain where only the common folk sit up and pay attention when it comes to odd things that appear in the sky or minds of citizens.

Why this is so, is troubling and open to you Brits who visit this blog. Have at it.

Image atop, of a British UFO incident, from the U.K.’s Mirror.

RR

You can run but you can’t hide

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It seems obvious (to me) that several, regular visitors here are ETHers but try to hide that preference – no, not my pals, Nick, Bryan S, José, or Zoam, but others.

Subverting psychiatric terminologies that explain “experiencer” accounts (UFO abductions) or ignoring neurological science that explains some UFO reports and sightings in short-sighted and intellectually moribund.

And choosing to sidestep astronomical facts [sic] that make ET visitations almost impossible is ignorance of a great kind.

I don’t rebuke the possibility that some UFO sightings may actually be extraterrestrial visitations, but in the extreme that UFO reports seem to imply is ludicrous; it would indicate that an advanced species either has a morbid curiosity sparked by an accidental visitation by a few or some of its cosmic explorers or the species, itself, isn’t absorbed by all the possible other species endemic to the galaxy or universe and choose to zero in on this puny planet (in the cosmic scheme) as their source of excitement which shows a kind of madness that would be as frightening as a madman/woman going after the one house and family in a neighborhood of many where he or she can satisfy their lust for the insignificant rather than the vulnerable whole.

The Earth is exciting and wonderful, to we who inhabit it, but in all of the Universe, Earth has to be so paltry it would ordinarily be bypassed or so unique that it invites another cosmic species to spend time and resources beyond measure to keep coming here and reconnoitering beyond rhyme or reason.

Subliminal belief in the ETH fools no one. It raises its foolish head in all kinds of ways and some of us are not tricked by the transgressive slips that some coming here are prone to commit, inadvertently or purposefully to assume the mantle of objectivity they wish to purvey.

I, and others, are not fooled.

N.B. Image atop from SETI site

RR