Contact in the Desert: A new fiasco ...back to the 70's

Massive decadence is the rule in Ufology, and this was evident again in the so called Contact in the Desert. Pathetic and preposterous. 
Brilliantly defined by Jason Colavito in his blog:

Contact in the Desert 2015: Paranoia and Pyramidiocy 6/1/2015 14 Comments   The annual “Contact in the Desert” meeting of fringe history and UFO fans ended in Joshua Tree last night after three days of zany speeches about conspiracies and aliens. According to Victoria Irwin of Fangirl Nation, who attended the event, the most notable part of the conference was the fact that the vendors who hawked their wares to the mixture of more than 2,000 conspiracy theorists and neo-hippies in attendance were mostly selling New Age holistic healing paraphernalia such as crystals, hippie clothes, organic food, and “natural” cures, all set to the tune of 1970s pop music—probably a conscious nod to the average age and cultural affiliation of fringe believers. Guests could also partake of ’70s favorites like aura photography, and they could see Nick Redfern, dressed like the teenager he was in the 1970s in a black t-shirt and bandana, both emblazoned with skulls. There was, by all accounts, copious amounts of marijuana being smoked, and every observer noted that the vast majority of attendees, as USA Today put it, “were united by their skepticism of common science, doubt of by-the-book history and distrust of the U.S. government.” Just like in the 1970s!" Karl Marx said once that History repeats itself, the first time as Tragedy and the second time as Comedy.