UAPs/Aliens

Being Humans and UFOs

There are some not so strange facts about humans that need to be sorted to better understand the UFO phenomenon. You’re not crazy to believe there’s something more than what you know.

Even though most, especially the educated folks, will endorse the maxim, ‘the more I know, the more I know I don’t know,’ we do not like discovering we missed something. There’s more than one way to say someone’s crazy. They lost their marbles is an older phrase. Now we just call people nuts. Apparently, in Australia they used to say, ‘he’s gone around the bend.’ More often than you might imagine, people make assessments of what they experience and decline to report for fear of people thinking they’re crazy. We all double down on a harsh, ‘consensus’ reality that may be a little more nebulous than we’d like to believe. It is safer. Or is it?

There’s an idea I am extracting from a 2011 New Yorker article by Louis Menand, which is soft, sideways move into this essay that might suggest cultural elitism explains human intellectual life. It’s not necessary to read the article, but I will link it just because it feels right to reveal this morning’s multivariate influence. Mendand linked this idea to one person, but I think all of us may be…