Aliens as Memes

Disregarding the problem of the existence or nonexistence of Extraterrestrial entities visiting our planet, we can say that the whole Ufology is not only a Meme but a Galaxy of memes.
A meme is a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
The original meme in the modern times, comes to life after Kenneth Arnold sighting of "flying saucers" in 1946. The end of the Second World War and the Cold War were the optimal conditions for the Ufological Meme, reinforced by films, books, presumed contactees and fantastic conspiracies.
The UFO meme, grew and become a self-replicating cultural Entity with extraordinary power. Also the original meme experienced mutations, becoming a real galaxy of memes.
I believe that the Internet gave to the Ufological Meme a new power and stop it's weakness that was evident in the seventies.
However, the UFO-Aliens subculture has little if any impact in the general public.
UFOs do not make News. The Ufological Galaxy of memes exists only in the Internet.
Books about the presumed 2012 Catastrophe or the pleiadean messages of Barbara Marciniak belong to the ET meme, but ALSO to the New Age rhetoric.
The 'news" about ETs, cosmic messages and eventual disclosure are created inside the UFO subculture.
Is what I call the "Nothing Happens Syndrome".
Professionals inside the UFO subculture are forced to keep things going on. They need to keep people interested in the Phenomenon, and waiting for something to happen.
Practically any event becomes related to the imaginary Disclosure. A breakfast in the UN becomes a multinational secret conference about Extraterrestrials.
Some Gurus of the Ufological subculture however, create sects with an obvious cultist orientation, and Excommunicate all those who disagree with their Orthodoxy of demand Evidences. The UFO cults work through Faith, never Fact. The self-proclaimed Cosmic Guru or Contactee is the one and only who KNOWS.
Science is denied, discussions are baned.
"The show must go on" because if it stops, profits also stop.
Now also some of these pseudo-ufologist look for alternatives like Healers, Theosophy, and Conferences about Subterranean Civilizations under the Titicaca Lake in Bolivia.
Perhaps the Ufological Meme will end in a latter days New Age,
Of course your ideas are welcome, even if they are opposite. After all, I have nothing to sell.

Dr. Salla Wishful Thinking...or "snake oil"?

My comments on Dr. Salla's text in bold and italics.

The BP Gulf Oil leak continues to arouse global concern as its toxic effects
threaten not only the Gulf of Mexico, but also the Atlantic Ocean itself. Worst
case scenarios project the entire planet’s oceans being contaminated for years
if not decades to come if the spill continues unabated. Humanity stands on the
brink of environmental catastrophe if radical solutions don’t quickly emerge.

Agree, and that's why we, humans must not watch the skyes but our Earth, understanding that "snake oil " will not solve our problems.


Albert Einstein once said “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking
we used when we created them.”
This is the classic logical fallacy called Ad Autoritatem , consisting in appeal to authorities to push ideas and fantasies that have nothing to do with Tesla or Einstein. In other words selling their "snake oil" or dolphin wisdom in the name of Einstein...bravo Dr. Salla.


The idea of using fossil fuels for our
civilization’s ever increasing energy needs is the kind of thinking that made
it possible for the risky deep water drilling practices that have created the
oil spill crisis. We need some radical new thinking about how to generate
energy for our burgeoning global civilization.
We need "some" new radical thinking: "Some" Dr. Salla? What means "some"?
Thinking that takes us into the
realm of new energy technologies developed by pioneers such as Nikola Tesla,
and what is used by extraterrestrial civilizations visiting our world.
Again the Ad Authoritatem fallacy. Perhaps Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein deserve a little respect?
As we make the transition from a Type 0 civilization based on fossil fuels, into a
Type 1 global civilization using new energy technologies, we need to consult
with and learn from extraterrestrials civilizations that have traveled the road
before us.
Of course this have the same value that praying to the Angels or the Saints. EVIDENCES Dr. Salla?
We simply need to open ourselves to radical new ways of thinking
about how advanced technologies and extraterrestrial life can assist our
planetary transition through crises such as the Gulf Oil spill. The articles in
this edition of the Exopolitics Journal provide a new way of thinking about
planetary issues from the perspective of alien life observing our world,
wishing to assist us, and the challenges of extraterrestrial disclosure.
Again Dr. Salla, do you have any minimal evidence of alien life observing our world and wishing to assist us? If you have some evidence please, share it with us. No...no "anonymous sources" or discredited whistleblowers or New Age nonsense. I mean EVIDENCES.
If you do not have something to show, remember the Middle East Proverb: Men are SLAVES of what they say, and MASTERS of their Silence.

The EXO-mythologists and Self-Fulfilling Prophesy

Self-fulfilling prophesy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true.
Why is this important? Because in the present revival of superstition, sometimes disguised as pseudo-science, Rational Thinking is the antithesis of Fascism and latter days Capitalism.
Do some google on self-fulfilling prophesy or follow the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy

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The Logical Fallacy that UFO fantasists just Love

I am writing here about the "Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc" fallacy which means "with this, because of this."
The fallacy consists in jumping to a conclusion based on a correlation between two events which occur simultaneously. Both events have nothing in common, but the fallacious establishes that the first event is the cause of the second one.
We can see this fallacy at work day after day.
Events C and E both happened at the same time, therefore, C caused E.

I should say that the mythologists are forced to use this fallacy, because it is the only way of writing something about UFO, disclosure, cover-up.
In the worst cases, the fantasist appeals to some "anonymous source" to force a relation between events C and E.
Besides, this fallacy keeps the fans interested in the UFO mythology, but NOT in the real UFO phenomenon investigation.
Of course the conspiracy theorists are experts in finding relations between different events, and the same thing happens to paranoids.
Remember always this: Absurd is the most effective weapon of disinformation.
In Area 51, they WANT you to believe that there is a flying saucer and a captured alien. Why? Because if you believe this, you will never ask about what is really going on there.

Tomas Scolarici

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The UFO-UN meeting HOAX EXPOSED

Follow link please. Here is the true value of the exopoliticians "anonymous sources"

http://www.realityu ncovered. net/blog/ 2010/05/ufology- exopolitics- special-source- a-exposed/

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