A comment to an earlier posting here about madness in the UFO community

Unknown has left a new comment on your post "Madness and madness: the state of ufology (an upda...":

"yes is good now lookes to me Chato is under punishment punishment is Showers Freeway and is atacking me.

I remember North Tigers."

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I would hope the sender is having some fun with me and isn't as nutty as his response suggests.

But the "comment" isn't far from some that I get rather regularly, here and at Facebook and other social media venues.

But it does occur to me, and was a suggestion to me at Academia.edu recently, that there seems to be an evolutionary instinct or drive bespeaking madness inherent in mankind and most other species on Earth (fauna AND flora).

When one looks carefully at the patina of behavior that hovers all historical activity, profound and simple, both -- current activity accented for us -- there is the scent, the flavor of what can be called psychotic nuance.

While Thomas Szasz hated the use of terms like mental illness or disease applied to seemingly unusual behavior by people, psychiatric terminologies appear apt for the populations of the world in a general or wholesale way: people are quite mad ("insane" in a literary sense, if not a psychological sense).

I don't have to point to the Afghan Taliban or Biden response to what's happening in that country

The looniness is palpable, and not that unusual when one considers what's happened during past events of a kind.

Then there are the crazies who don't see the Corona Delta virus as virulent or dangerous as it truly is.

Relevant to the UFO mania, being highlighted by everyone lately, one sees behavior and response as mad, in an innocuous way, that can be called neurotic or mildly psychotic.

Madness underlies most, if not all, UFO-related activity, the behavior not in the same category of the examples noted above about the Afghan crisis or Pandemic foolishness,  but just as "insane" in its way.

The comment above from "Unknown" not that far from what most here are seeing or ignoring from the UFO cupboards at Facebook or in other UFO circles.

Ufology has always held forth looniness, from day one, which is arguably 1947, the Arnold and Roswell events;  both generating a plethora of bizarre, psychiatric behavior by the general public, news media, and government/military agencies.

Today, that same kind of overlay persists.

Even among some comments here -- I won't name the persons using flawed, even irrational arguments -- the responses are dotty, only having an air of common sense or sanity.

Within the comments lurk madness, a denial of realities or common sense.

(My own written utterances have a bold tint of madness, but I like to think I'm being calculated not mad.)

So, let's not think that our UFO obsession is okay. It isn't. But in the great scheme of things, we are relatively harmless, aren't we?

RR