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Believers in extraterrestrial visitants and saviors from outer space are now welcomed on the most respectable television shows to broadcast their propaganda for that imaginary world with its superior technology and its marvelously stupid representatives who adopt the names of ancient gods and moan they are prisoners of time.
All of the generations before ours were infested with false prophets, workers of wonders, and signs in the sky. In a sense, each generation is truly the Last Generation from their microscopic viewpoint. But our modern electronic Communications and sophisticated press agentry have given present-day prophets tools the ancients lacked. Ideas, no matter how bizarre or fallacious, can span the world in a flash. And there are always people ready to rally to any banner, no matter how absurd.
From John Keel of all people.
Stern no-nonsense scientists now drag their beards to Loch Ness
But gradually all these men are being drawn closer and closer to ontology;
“Why are there these things?”
But Charles Fort’s question always haunts me: “If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?”
*Male UFO witnesses sometimes develop a temporary set of symptoms resembling gonorrhea.
For one hundred years, no matter where you lived on this ball of nitrogen, oxygen and cosmic spit, someone within two hundred miles of your home had personally seen a monster with big red eyes and, often, a penetrating stench. They were everywhere, along with the maddened dictators, publicity hungry generals and warlords, and wild-eyed scientists who kept mumbling incomprehensible formulae for manipulating things we could not see.
Technology took over and our machines were nuttier than all of us.
Mothman—or “The Bird”—has been appearing almost constantly since the 1960s.
We are meant to be crazy. It is an important part of the human condition.
This planet is haunted by us; the other occupants just evade boredom by filling our skies and seas with monsters.
