Aug 15 2008

Mac Tonnies Swings The Blade

If you don’t visit Mac Tonnies’ blog regularly, you’re missing out. He’s always writing about things that should intrigue anyone interested in where the human race is headed.

Mac also writes for the SETI.com site (not actually affiliated with the SETI program) on UFOs. His latest describes (in a much better and more intelligent way than I have) something I (and Nick as well) have been pushing for awhile. Here it is in a nutshell:

The ufological “community” suffers from creative anemia. It has a disheartening tendency to refute dissenting voices–even those within its own ranks–with tired screeds that unnecessarily polarize the debate (such as it is) between cautious advocates of the Extraterrestrrial Hypothesis and know-nothing science popularizers who seem genuinely incapable of considering the UFO inquiry outside the cognitive barriers posed by decades of cheesy sci-fi cinema and the legacy of myriad True Believers.

…but do read the whole thing. To me, it’s a manifesto calling for dissolution.

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