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Loose Cannon
In marked contrast to the consistently-evil alien sporespawn of H. P. Lovecraft's 'Fungi from Yuggoth', I wish to refer David B. (and any other interested party) to episode #150 of the strange-but-interesting Psychedelic Salon podcast, wherein hedge-scientist Terence McKenna can be heard addressing a convocation of UFOlogical listeners on a variety of topics, including the possibility that evidence of alien visitation upon Earth is not only abundant, conspicuous, and - evidently - moral in the extreme, but is also intimately tied to his well-publicised notions of concrescent historical attractors, and hominoid evolution by way of entheogenic interactions.
From the landing page:
"This is not a drug. It’s something that’s disguising itself as a drug in order not to spread alarm. (...) I think that the alien will be so alien that your jaw will hang in the air. And expecting to meet an anthropoid-like alien with an interest in your reproductive machinery and gross industrial capacity is as culture-bound a concept as searching NGC-321 for a good Italian restaurant. It’s absurd on the face of it. (...) All of human history is the signifier of the presence of the alien. Human history is what happens to an advanced animal species when it is inner-penetrated on a scale of a million years by a mind in another dimension."
If so, his observations re the ironical underpinnings of the great parabolic dish at Arecibo become especially appropriate.
From the landing page:
"This is not a drug. It’s something that’s disguising itself as a drug in order not to spread alarm. (...) I think that the alien will be so alien that your jaw will hang in the air. And expecting to meet an anthropoid-like alien with an interest in your reproductive machinery and gross industrial capacity is as culture-bound a concept as searching NGC-321 for a good Italian restaurant. It’s absurd on the face of it. (...) All of human history is the signifier of the presence of the alien. Human history is what happens to an advanced animal species when it is inner-penetrated on a scale of a million years by a mind in another dimension."
If so, his observations re the ironical underpinnings of the great parabolic dish at Arecibo become especially appropriate.