Madness shuffled to me by Facebook [12/28] -- The UFO topic is a mess, exacerbated by social media and its dolts

(That imperceptible white dot in the upper middle of this black image is the supposed UFO) 

 

RR

Um ...

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As a news media critic, I am loath to condone grammatical gaffes, sloppy on-air personages, or inept presentations generally.

 
Being subjected to a wealth of YouTube and other over-the-air offerings lately – which come about because my TV watching or online searches included interest in a particular person or topic.
 
A few things that my Smart TV or smartphone has noticed included, as you may have guessed from my postings here, the March 2022 Archives of the Impossible conference and a few Jacques Vallee interviews and talks.
 
Vallee is always interesting despite his lean-into French accented vocal utterings. A recent Ted X talk about coincidence (slanted toward Jung’s observations about the topic) was succinct and informative, and had nothing to do with UFOs.
 
Last night, I got a notification about a Chris Lehto’s recent/live interview with PhD Dean Radin:
 
https://youtu.be/4huxG_43roU

The topic was Dr. Radin’s assertion about mind control research and, in particular, his studies using  Quantum’s ubiquitious double-slit experiment.
 
(Radin’s research has to do with how mind concentration during a double-slit text produces results that indicate a human mind can determine where particles – and how many – will appear after they pass through a slit in a machine's apparatus.)
 
Radin was articulate and geared to a TV appearance: neat and natty, intelligent, and delightful to listen to. (Lehto, as usual, was tuned in and sensible but lacks the intellectual demeanor of Jesse Michels.)
 
Contrast that with Diana Pasulka [American Cosmic]. Whose Archives talk was often flighty and fraught with “ums” – that dastardly synaptic hesitation that indicates one’s mental hesitation, brief as it may be, that beleaguers persons who are inept at giving public talks or speeches. They are not unintelligent necessarily, just not up to speed, verbally with what their brain is attempting to present vocally.
 
Quite a few of the Archives presenters were cursed by the um factor, making their presentations hard to take.
 
Um is an indicator or a mental flaw, not a serious malady, but a flaw nonetheless and often giving clues to an amateurish mind-set.

Hampered by a multitude of “ums” a presenter loses his or her audience’s attention in ways that are miniscule but perceptive, if one asks a listener what they had heard from the um-presenter.
 
Pasulka lost me with her “girly” approach to the UFO topic, which also afflicted her intent in her book, which I mentioned in a review about it: she came off as a California Valley girl, exploited in a popular song and other entertainments a decade or two ago.
 
The other “problem” I’m encountering is the shift of the UFO phenomenon, not just to the amorphous UAP designation, but to a subset in the current fad of questioning our reality.
 
Almost everyone has an assertion about how wrong science has been about the nature of reality, and how philosophy, cosmology, physics, history, et al, is off the mark when it comes to what is real and what is really real.
 
UFO enthusiasts swamp podcasts and TV shows with Ringling Brothers nonsense, some mystically crummy music, and slovenly, often bearded, visages that make viewers cringe.
 
Add “um” to the mix and we are onslaughted by hicks and dolts who damage the language, the UFO phenomenon, and the aesthetics of refinement that some of us have an affinity for.
 
UFOs have always been awash in a residue of vulgarity, now being replaced by a usurpation of its sobriquet and a sloppy patina or overlay by the peasant class of UAP newbies.
 
RR