From March 2010

I’ve spending my mornings  polishing up a conference paper I’m presenting next month.  The subject is exopolitics, conspiracy thinking, and the Obama election/presidency.  One thing that I’m struggling with as I tighten my argument is that I’m finding the exopolitics movement, and exopoliticians themselves are pretty annoying.

And this is why.

Like so many aspects of UFOlogy that irritate me to no end, the Exopols are obsessed with being taken seriously.  They long to be mainstream.  They set themselves up as academics (and whether or not academia is truly “mainstream” is another topic) or lobbyists (ditto) and stage conferences and stamp their little feet and scream “LOOK AT ME!”

Why would we?  Honestly, what are they bringing to the table besides the same unsupportable theories, the same tired, been-around-the-circuit-for-years “witnesses” and the same promises that the truth isn’t just out there, but that it’s just around the corner.

The seriousness annoys me most.  The earnest, po-faced, embrace of nuts and bolts and politics is just so tired.  It’s at times like this that, in the past, I would head over to posthumanblues and see what Mac Tonnies had to say.  Sadly, I can no longer do that.  There are other outlets that embrace the strange and fantastic–Greg Bishop is about the best out there–but they are few and far between.

I guess the point of this rant is that I’m sick and tired of people positing answers when we don’t even know what questions to ask.

Back to work.