Pampering the UFO community is counterproductive.
Pampering, courting the UFO community is a sure way to
perpetuate the current stagnant status quo.
Any human "community" will have worldviews,
expectations, things that are agreable to them, that make them "feel
good", things that are popular, etc. Many times that defines essentially
the given community.
But it is well known to sociologists that what is
agreeable, popular to a given community not necessarily coincides with what is
true or objective, and the UFO community is not exception to that rule.
What is true, objective, cannot be subject to
popularity contests.
We have seen that many members of that community never
had done any atmospheric observations, even with naked eye, not to mention
using high optical magnification equipment; what is really needed for serious
observations. That is the very definition of being detached from reality, or
not being or trying to be attuned to it. How can you know what really is in the
sky if you are not a serious observer of it? Many Ufologists had done the same.
Not surprising then their ideas about what is in the sky are full of
preconceptions and assumptions.
Now since the 1950's some people with a real interest
in the field had made direct observations of the sky, starting with Trevor J.
Constable, read his book: They Live in the Sky. But also a key figure of the
nuts and bolts UFO believers "movement" Kenneth Arnold, the coiner of
the (in)famous phrase: flying saucers, made direct observations and reached
conclusions that departed from the nuts and bolts believers expectations.
So the people that had made regular observations of
the sky, the very definition of trying to be objective and being attuned to
reality had reached conclusions very much out of sync with the rigid
narrow-minded expectations of the nuts and bolts believers that never had done
any of these observations. The people that had made these observations always
reported amorphous, shape shifters entities/objects, even Kenneth Arnold
reached that same conclusion. But that had been redacted out, or ignored, in
the UFO folklore that the nuts and bolts believers want to promote.
This clearly shows that by courting that UFO community
only the perpetuation of ideas that are very much detached from reality and
likable to them will prevail.
Also the "media" around/covering the UFO
topic had made a trap for themselves because by courting/pampering that
community they usually promote the topics that are agreeable/popular to that
community, they are slaves of traffic/popularity so they are forced to be
"politically correct" regarding that community otherwise they will
not "sell". That means obviously that this media and in general any
business interests around this topic are intrinsic part of the problem,
ironically some of them claim to be trying to solve the "problem" or
searching for the "truth".
So the active observers of UFOs/Anomalies using high
optical magnification equipment should not be affraid from the attacks coming
from the hardcore nuts and bolts UFO believers, these attacks are unavoidable
simply because these believers are very much detached from reality, how can we
expect that people without any experience will understant or accept what we are
observing almost in a daily basis? Using analogy: do you think that people that
never had used even a lupe will understand the marvelous world seen through a
microscope? Obviously not and the analogy is really
very precise.
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