point well taken, well taken the dinosaur? is that about that big bang fairy tale?
Gary Kern wrote: > Gerd Groenewold wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I have come to see the whole UFO/ET mythology as exactly that, a > > mythology, a religious phenomenon, however it is one that has been given > > a technological twist, which explains its endurance in a titanic age. > > Instead of Angels and gods, we instead have beings who are thought to be > > like ourselves, only "more advanced," either intellectually or > > technologically or both. In popular culture we see it in both positive > > and negative reflections, for example the movie _Close Encounters of the > > Third Kind_, which ends with a giant UFO descending from the heavens > > like the New Jerusalem, or, on the negative side, every week we can see > > another episode of _The X-Files_ on TV, where there is a secret > > conspiracy in league with aliens in a way reminiscent of medieval > > European ideas of a secret witch cult in league with the devil. > > > ********************************* > It is not usually noticed, but the intelligent aliens often serve a > political purpose. I recall Carl Sagan, guru of popular science in > America, speculating that it would be foolish to imagine that human > beings are the only intelligent life in the universe and equally foolish > to imagine that they (we) are the most intelligent. This point > demonstrated, he went on to imagine what a super-intelligent alien would > say if he came to earth and saw how we did things. Now the door was > open for Sagan's view of the world and Sagan's solutions, all projected > onto a fictional visitor from outer space. Sagan, so sharp in debunking > astrology, didn't bother to deal with the distances the alien would have > to travel, cultural estrangement and other difficulties, because he was > on a political correctness roll. > > I have seen television programs, especially Babylon Five, where the > alien, even before his qualities are known, is accorded equality with > human beings and equal rights. Those who question it are treated as > racists. It's a good moral lesson hammered into our skulls. The alien > as superior being actually = the author of the alien as superior being. > It's a nice trick, very much like what the Communists did with the > proletariat. > > More and more I am noticing that scientists are not scientific, prone to > prejudice and cliche-ridden. The alien is only one example of their > failure to remain impartial, critically minded and dedicated to the > scientific method. The dinosaur is another. > > GK
