First we should consider the following characterizations:
there are basically two kinds of UFO adepts. The first one is the closed
ufologist. This is an honest individual who buys his UFO books if he or she has
money, and follows in the Internet the urban legend included the basic
ufological themes: The conspiracy, cover-up, whistle-blowers, sightings and the
classical UFO mythology:
Good or Bad Extraterrestrials are secretly doing something in
our planet, etc. There are of course variations of these dogmas, and these
variations are pseudo-scientific disciplines, channeling or the paranormal.
The second kind of Ufologist is the open one, the public,
self proclaimed researcher, writer, lecturer and story-teller.
My hypothesis is that the open ufologist, the professional,
is an individual who KNOWS that the war against skepticism or indifference is
LOST already. It was lost from the beginning.
The professional understands that never will be such thing
as a public contact or a disclosure. He knows that ETs, as angels, demons or
gods, will never show, because they do not exist, and if they exist, cosmic distances
will make any contact impossible.
So, the professional ufologist problem is just to keep
people interested. Enough people to buy books and pay for lectures or lessons
of Galactic Diplomacy (Sic.) with diploma included.
Now, if our intelligent professional knows that the battle
is lost already, he or she fights for time. Time is for the professional
ufologist of paramount importance. His enemies are not the psyops or the
debunkers.
Inevitably, some true-believers will have “faith” in the
ET=UFO myth, but others will become aware that the whole thing is mythological,
and that the promises of the Exopoliticians and other experts never happen.
Thus, intelligent professional ufologists must have some
exit ready, because if their deluded clients see the simple truth, it will be
time for these “experts” to find something else to do for a living.
