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So I thought I would look at one of these just to see if there was anything there as I really like the idea of Lucifer's Technologies, portraying the alien as a demon with great tech. I buy that more than Spielberg's latest regurgitation of the mediated and populist history of ufology
This particular entry talks about the usual reverse engineering of captured technology, citing the shift from germanium transistors to silicone transistors. I think Vallée was on the Paracast explaining that there is in fact a very detailed and precisely recorded history of transistors, which you can find out for yourself with any old search engine or AI compatriot.
But for me this brings up the whole echo chamber, or Memeplex as David Perkins once explained to Chris O'Brien, or maybe Greg Bishop, when talking about paranormal phenomena and our understanding based on the replicating echoes of truth and untruth. As it was and so it shall remain.
There's no measure of a critical voice in ufology because it's too filled with the same false suppositions and vampires of cases that keep coming back from the dead. I feel like the Internet both destroyed and recreated ufology into its own Memeplex and multimedia broadcast of mostly junk, suppositions and conspiracies mixed in with actual cases. It's a Tower of Babel, babbling on and on with some actual threads of good information weaving through it all. Validity remains a democratic choice.
I think most of the good discussion and hardcore analysis of the phenomena is done by private groups and those who can afford the tech to do any analysis and recording of them. It's going beyond multidisciplinary and moving behind paywalls at the same time, where the barriers to entry are fairly well established. I think your best bet to tuning into a variety of voices that still range from esoteric to philosophical and analytical is the stuff around
The Archives of the Impossible and their annual symposium. There's some interesting academics there and Vallée, and Streiber who, as a contactee, reminds me over and over again that you can't put much stock in the contactee's voice....they wander inside themselves too much.
Gone are the days when the heavy hitters of ufology and their contrasting opinions jammed the airwaves and magazine editorial rebuttals. Friedman, Clark, Hynek, Keel, Menzel, Klass, Moseley, Vallée have almost all disappeared. There is no moderator of the media landscape and the decentralization of voices into digital platforms just distorts any real signal. I miss the old Paracast, that's for sure.
I haven't heard a good strong signal in a long time. Even the irrationalists have meandered into some kind of academic surreal buddhism. It's all just floating, as UFOs do, in our upper atmosphere for only some of us to see.
I think it would have been grand to have been a teen at the time of Aimé Michel and follow him then Vallée, consume Keel and then, bypassing Friedman to get balanced by Clark, returning to Fort and then reading Hansen and the rest of Vallée, and finally some Mac Tonnies in your retirement years, while drinking a beer in the backyard.
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