Shining a Flashlight Down the Rabbit Hole: Some Reflections on Post-Truth Populist Thinking - Skunkworks

We step back a bit from the immediate UFO news and consider some thoughtful essays upon rather more consistent aspects of the field, as Bryan Sentes sets ufology into a greater context. This particular piece is a cogent description of the fundamental historical roots and "modern" expression of a systemic American, indeed Western, cultural condition. In Sightings: Monday 24 May 2021: Polarized Politics, Propaganda, and Post-Truth Populism Bryan remarks the wide influence UFOs have upon widely differing areas. He distills out interesting observations upon recent ufology's interplay with larger societal circumstances/problems/events. With "In the Beginning Was the Word": Concerning Jacques Vallee's Stratagem and the Wilson/Davis Document and Related Matters Sentes proposes alternative possibilities for similarities between a 2006/7 Vallee novel and the more recently-popular "Wilson/Davis documents." And in Il n'y a rien en dehors du texte? Reading Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret Against the Grain Bryan proposes an interpretation of the Jacques Vallee/Paola Harris book that both explains an apparently botched "historical" account of a non-historical event (in the generally accepted English definitions of "history"), and places the work into a differently-understood "history" which nonetheless possesses a certain meaning. This may help the reader better grasp what's perhaps behind all the blatant weaknesses in the tome. (WM)

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