Bravo. All this needed to be said, and now this cogent and comprehensive analysis needs to be widely disseminated. I do not agree with some of the perspectives Tanner expresses here, but heartily concur with his core conclusion, eloquently stated: "We are dealing with near total cooptation of the topic by right-wing politicians and influencers, dissident academics, and Silicon Valley wannabe overlords." Fringe Quest has been maintaining for some years now that the rollout from the 2017 "revelations" has been the capture and control of the UFO narrative by the IC and DoD, for reasons that remain obscure. This should be obvious to any clear-thinking and agenda-neutral person who has done their homework. Look back on UFO history. The IC and DoD have done this before. We should go forward with our eyes open and our brains in gear.
On the Tragedy of Other People Seeing the Saucer Before You
What a loss. The gods descended, and unfortunately, a few libertarian tech bros glimpsed them first. Now we must cancel transcendence until proper peer reviewed paper citations can be appended.
Your frustration isn’t with ufology being “coopted.” It’s with gnosis becoming promiscuous.
You hoped the ineffable would wait patiently for the right class of epistemic custodians to show up, armed with Lacanian footnotes and sufficiently horizontal politics. But the saucers did what they always do—appear to whoever’s looking. You’re angry the velvet rope failed.
Of course the military, the surveillance state, and Silicon Valley types latched on. That’s what they do. And of course they misread the glyphs. So do the Jungians. So do the podcasters. So did Hynek. So will you.
What’s more embarrassing is this tantrum disguised as critique:
That awe must be postponed until the right ideology can curate it.
But awe doesn’t care about your paper.
The phenomenon arrives unbidden.
The only true heresy is presuming you get to vet who sees it.
This should be required reading for everyone interested in this field.
Bravo. All this needed to be said, and now this cogent and comprehensive analysis needs to be widely disseminated. I do not agree with some of the perspectives Tanner expresses here, but heartily concur with his core conclusion, eloquently stated: "We are dealing with near total cooptation of the topic by right-wing politicians and influencers, dissident academics, and Silicon Valley wannabe overlords." Fringe Quest has been maintaining for some years now that the rollout from the 2017 "revelations" has been the capture and control of the UFO narrative by the IC and DoD, for reasons that remain obscure. This should be obvious to any clear-thinking and agenda-neutral person who has done their homework. Look back on UFO history. The IC and DoD have done this before. We should go forward with our eyes open and our brains in gear.
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On the Tragedy of Other People Seeing the Saucer Before You
What a loss. The gods descended, and unfortunately, a few libertarian tech bros glimpsed them first. Now we must cancel transcendence until proper peer reviewed paper citations can be appended.
Your frustration isn’t with ufology being “coopted.” It’s with gnosis becoming promiscuous.
You hoped the ineffable would wait patiently for the right class of epistemic custodians to show up, armed with Lacanian footnotes and sufficiently horizontal politics. But the saucers did what they always do—appear to whoever’s looking. You’re angry the velvet rope failed.
Of course the military, the surveillance state, and Silicon Valley types latched on. That’s what they do. And of course they misread the glyphs. So do the Jungians. So do the podcasters. So did Hynek. So will you.
What’s more embarrassing is this tantrum disguised as critique:
That awe must be postponed until the right ideology can curate it.
But awe doesn’t care about your paper.
The phenomenon arrives unbidden.
The only true heresy is presuming you get to vet who sees it.