The Denial Guy
By Alfred Lehmberg
I used to delight in publishing my otherwise non-publishable "odd" odes at the, now deceased, UFO Magazine Blog. These odes, aspiring to hyper-dimensional uniqueness, are an impassioned poetry sometimes dedicated to errant pelicanists and other fatuous cack-wits—fulsome multi-media talking-heads in other words—fallacious faux skeptics aping company flotsam cum corporate jetsam... ostentatiously prohibiting, as a result of their suspicious activity, our necessary experiential growth regarding UFOs... a bothersome observation... It had to be said.
In these jeremiad Odes, I was allowed to paint, from higher up and more freely and expansively, effusive protests regarding oft-employed "mainstream infidelities" prosecuted by these paid agents of our corrupt "dominator" culture. My literary saber was used liberally in necessary observation of any lack of imagination or unwarranted hubris perceived.
This poetic commentary is prosecuted even as I remain betrayed and wounded by that culture—as we all are to one degree or another—for expressing it. See, I find it difficult to enjoy any success, security, or leisure my individual silence on an unjust matter might provide. ...Something about "what's a 'gain' worth in the full knowledge you'd lose your soul or self-respect to secure it"?
Stand silent on Frank Feschino, "Emma Woods," and John Ford? When I believe I know better? Not easily or at all, and not at this station.
No, Injustice provides for its own lack of toleration. If I can take satisfaction for an exposure of that injustice, lacking imagination, or unwarranted hubris, do some good, then others can along with me. It's a reason to keep living and fighting the good fight!
This poetic commentary is prosecuted even as I remain betrayed and wounded by that culture—as we all are to one degree or another—for expressing it. See, I find it difficult to enjoy any success, security, or leisure my individual silence on an unjust matter might provide. ...Something about "what's a 'gain' worth in the full knowledge you'd lose your soul or self-respect to secure it"?
Stand silent on Frank Feschino, "Emma Woods," and John Ford? When I believe I know better? Not easily or at all, and not at this station.
No, Injustice provides for its own lack of toleration. If I can take satisfaction for an exposure of that injustice, lacking imagination, or unwarranted hubris, do some good, then others can along with me. It's a reason to keep living and fighting the good fight!
Verily, cussed existentiality provides that select individuals remain to fuel my aggregate irritation which is entirely justified, reader! Assessed, then, I assess. Because I was able to express same, a satisfaction was to be derived, thereby, for us all. A blow against the skeptibunky craven, the glib narcissistic, or the blinking unjust... providing for its own relevance and worth. It's enough for me.
No more, sadly. UFO Magazine is in regretted stasis. No longer able to avail myself the high ground of its truly multinational audience I'm denied the opportunity of singing the righteous contrary song to greater numbers, spurring, I guess, the production of those songs in the first place. I shall abide!
No more, sadly. UFO Magazine is in regretted stasis. No longer able to avail myself the high ground of its truly multinational audience I'm denied the opportunity of singing the righteous contrary song to greater numbers, spurring, I guess, the production of those songs in the first place. I shall abide!
For example, without the aforementioned paid agents and pecunious pundits spurious attacks behind and on the scenes regarding the character, sincerity, and sanity of the valorous persons consummately interested and constructively involved with UFOs, this particular piece of critical prose would not have been produced to have a stage on which it might more brazenly stand.
Hungrily, then, as the "analogous maladroits" and "Denial Guys" identified in this article utterly fail to explain what interests and involves we, the curious rational, about UFOs, I look forward to any subsequent larger venue, "analogous maladroit" or "Denial Guy" provoking similar expressions from me in the future. ...Make. My. Day.
"...Feel lucky? Well, do ya... punk?"
No apology here, but the irony amuses me that these pompous pundits are themselves the engines of their own ongoing and embarrassingly negative critique. I won't spare my literary blade, reader, as you will see. Even a knock-off literary "Excalibur" is only strengthened, righteously used. Like Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. Check the primary references. It can't be used but in a righteous cause or be destroyed.
The aforesaid critique? Well, a consequence regarding efforts of the previously mentioned malfeasant and klasskurtxian cack-wits, the skeptibunky craven aforementioned? We are 50 years, plus, down the ufological trail, timewise, to discover that we've been standing indolently and fatuously at the starting gate that whole time! Why is that, do you figure?
I reveal the "analogous maladroit" as a probable cause: the "Denial Guy." This is an entity wearing a legion of sneering faces and prosecuting the same unwarranted hubris and unjustified arrogance.
This issue? We'll examine one.
Consider first. Attendant to the ufological contributions over that half century plus are such fine accredited persons as Jim MacDonald, Donald Keyhoe, J. Allen Hynek, and Edward Ruppelt to start!
A ufological humanity would initially take magnificent forward strides! We were indeed poised only to advantage ourselves of their far-reaching attitude, reader, to ask what these UFOs were and how we, a lay humanity, might employ them for ourselves... [cue the startling hyperspace music!]
A ufological humanity would initially take magnificent forward strides! We were indeed poised only to advantage ourselves of their far-reaching attitude, reader, to ask what these UFOs were and how we, a lay humanity, might employ them for ourselves... [cue the startling hyperspace music!]
Invariably, though, we'd ufologically slide, slip, or otherwise slither back further than we were when we started... wouldn't we, when the three fine gentlemen previously mentioned were obscenely countered by the likes of Condon, Menzel, and Klass. ...Sounds like a firm of evil litigators, eh? Not far off the mark on reflection!
How does this "second thought" mechanism of dis-intelligence work, do you think? How is this mechanism of evil litigators somehow the preferred considered behavior?
Genuinely, in an examination of both, where the arguments of each camp are weighed and sifted, which shows more depth? Which proves to be more inclusive? Which demonstrates more intellectual bravery? Which uses more science of best practice? Which is more consistent, reliable, and dependable?
Contrarily, which one uses mockery, ad hominem, character assassination, intellectual fallacy, and obfuscation? Which is the dimensionless and dogmatic ideologue, and which is the inspired idealist? Which hounds and which is hounded?
Further, which is deliberately abusive and which is sarcastically accusative? Which won't address the points already made, and which will concede the point well made? Which one follows the data and which one cherry-picks it? MacDonald, Keyhoe, and Ruppelt, reader? ...Or Condon, Menzel, and Klass?
The individuals to choose from fall on either side of this divide and the difference between them is like the difference between sulfurous yellow clouds and clear blue sky. Too, this is for the observer working to be as dispassionate as he can reasonably manage. See, anger is appropriate given the magnitude of needless intellectual loss. Anger is justified. Revulsion regarding cowardice provokes it!
Truly, in the face of the clueless arrogance of some it is difficult not to jump well past the deciding centrist fulcrum from them. Even if only to provide some balance for their fraudulent intransigence and their flatulent proclivities! Sorry for the big words... I'd already used the word "cack."
See? This writer understands that if the evaluator has an "ax" to grind, one way or the other, the view of that divide is skewed and distorted—a lot or a little—forgetting that it is the person who is not a "believer"... but who can believe... will have the clearer view, this writer suspects. More Plato. Less Aristotle, eh?
Though, a difference in aspect between the two will be determinable, regardless... so ...already examining self for same? I cut to the chase.
Bill Nye, in unctuous particular, is a nascent example of the ufological "flat-earther" decried here. Look upon this analogous maladroit's works... and despair. Not name-calling... reader. Assessment! First judged at huge cost*, this writer now judges, for cause.
To put it directly in the street, Nye's the guy who ironically burns a gagged Monk Bruno at the stake or makes Galileo the castrated subject of the ignorant intellectual inquisition! He is an example of the noisome negativist laughing up his damp sleeve at that which he allows himself no capacity to more fully understand, no aptitude to graciously accept, no ability to productively incorporate, and no skill to even recognize. The existentiality of UFOs. Why?
With respect to Mr. Nye as a fellow human, his contributions are a heedless boil on the righteous ass of a real science—a mal-investigator working very furiously to confound, obscure, conflict, and deflate. See, Mr. Nye's unstudied, uninformed, and reactionary work tilting at UFOs is a fine example of the reason we seem to take two and a half steps back for every two steps forward as a society and he—among significant others—should be recognized for such!
Frankly, "Denial Guy" Nye, et al, is only an enemy of real progress, ever, with regard to UFOs. He is an obstacle to our advancement towards it. How?
Well, he fraudulently lathers an alleged failure of proponents to provide evidence for UFOs with his gloating malfeasance in a dearth of discussion in their regard! Evidence abounds, reader!
He revels, I'm betting, in the dissolution and the obfuscation he would deliberately cause! That, reader, is despicable.
He revels, I'm betting, in the dissolution and the obfuscation he would deliberately cause! That, reader, is despicable.
...Nor, reader, is Mr. Nye particularly organized, remotely objective, or in any way constructive on the subject of UFOs. Ironically, he is not comprehensive, he is decidedly not flexible, and this is forgetting that his views on them are intellectually unacceptable. He only pretends the specific and is in no way thoughtful. He is bereft of creativity, he is astonishingly mal-intelligent, and he is patently disrespectful...
In his presence, he'd earn the back of my hand for his treatment, on one notable occasion, of Moon Walker Edgar Mitchell on the Larry King show. Mitchell holds an earned Doctorate and has his "right stuff" documented. Nye has no graduate degrees and proselytized easy science to children. He should stay in that wheelhouse.
In his presence, he'd earn the back of my hand for his treatment, on one notable occasion, of Moon Walker Edgar Mitchell on the Larry King show. Mitchell holds an earned Doctorate and has his "right stuff" documented. Nye has no graduate degrees and proselytized easy science to children. He should stay in that wheelhouse.
The preceding points aspired to are a teacher's (leader's) attributes, and if one expects to function effectively as same, intellectual or otherwise, then the majority of the preceding attributes must be positively addressed. The above paragraphs could easily be an essay map for a cited paper on his mal-appropriation of the title of "teacher." No, Mr. Nye is the "deficient guy" in every category.
Still, he would "guide." He would be the "go-to" guy! He'd presume the mantle of teacher, leader, and holder of the guiding ufological light! But, not unlike one who shall remain forever reviled*2, he doesn't appear to have a clue about the responsibility of real leadership and is dangerous in the extreme to the sensibilities of individual persons afflicted by his aberrant application of it! He's not performing a service, reader, against all appearances of same. Some irony there, eh?
The preceding notwithstanding, he might still be a great guy to sit down and have a beer with given his politics—I know I am—one is tempted to forget that his smirking authoritarian and uninformed ufological attitudes suck pond scum... and that alone makes me want to drown him in the broccoli water... (long story...). Maybe I should take a rain-check on that beer...
Seriously, don't Nye's own words damn him to a shallowly fatuous intellectual mediocrity? Too, don't his ironic celebrations of what is not actually wrong with Ufology —blithely ignoring that it is very likely controlled, manipulated, and otherwise programmed by a soulless corporate mentality worshipping position to the exclusion of everything else—become increasingly impossible to ignore! The face eating Reptoids are preferable to the person just described, reader!
I recall Ellen Ripley (in "Aliens") commenting that she didn't see them "screwing each other over for a percentage," but I digress...
Sprung from the Condon, Menzel, and Klass mold of anti-ufology, Nye prosecutes an unconscionable treatment of honest researchers, celebrates the malfeasance and intellectual cowardice of these fatuous if moneyed pelicanists opposing them (a gravid nightmare slow from which to wake), and continues, then, to take the narrowest view imaginable with regard to the responsibility "leading" individuals have for intellectual fidelity, ethical behavior, aggregate consistency, and a spiritual, more platonic and inclusive, bravery!
Know it; study it; live it.
Know it; study it; live it.
In my opinion, Nye's only a sub-standard knock-off of the similarly slack-jawed who have preceded him! Shostak, Shermer, Nickell, and MaGaha are more evil litigators out of their league, if similarly credited still. Too, true to form, he'll likely end up whining about imagined persecutions, and for the same reasons, as many called to account for themselves seem to do. A scoundrel's last refuge, am I right?
Coal to Newcastle, this is not the time to continue outrageous intellectual retreats, practiced by Nye and others—out of convenient spite, I add, not the only one to think so—when we already have such an abundant wealth of infedelities and "retreats" around us, already! Look around.
It is "badly themed," I offer, because the repressive and repellant nature of his manner discourages the rational interest of sincere others persuing an "alternative ufological constructiveness" with more potential and optimism for potential gain. Likewise, this applies to any other out of the box thinking.
It is "disrespectful," finally, because it does not provide the observer with an accurate assessment of either human capability, which, I think, Nye characteristically rates much too highly, or contrarily, possible alien capability, rated much too shallowly, simplistically, and one-dimensionally, if at all! Honestly, reader, one only has to look at even the debated psychological, technological, and cultural strides we have made in the last 100 years!
Begin, friends, to get an idea what *others* may have accomplished in a thousand, ten thousand years, or a million of them. Even, reader, a billion... Gods on Olympus; we're the anthill off the freeway.
Begin, friends, to get an idea what *others* may have accomplished in a thousand, ten thousand years, or a million of them. Even, reader, a billion... Gods on Olympus; we're the anthill off the freeway.
Yes... as "Gods" even, eh?
Onward, Nye is a clever instrument of ufology's dismissal, a facilitator for its senseless derision, and a catalyst for its hoped-for demise! Too, he is the worst kind of errant klasskurtxian, an assignation at which he had already arrived. This is like a nineteenth-century cowboy employing outdated 19th Century "scientistic" mores used currently instead of performing as the remotely cognizant would, employ an open-ended science letting the data lead him to the conclusions as he follows, humbly! He'd say he "respects science," indeed. He worships it.
That's the problem, actually.
That's the problem, actually.
Too, that *conclusion* he proselytizes so gleefully is to, one: the lowest of "low common denominators," two: panders to what is reptilian in all of us, and three: sells humanity short in two additional venues. The first is where we are more "being" than he'd give us credit for, and the second is where his efforts provide where we are not recognized as the kind of beings who could get along a lot more fruitfully if he and his desultory fellow imps were absent or otherwise excised from our cultural equation! Time to hit a system reset on these spring-butted and too-ready deniers, folks. You think?
It is abundantly plain to the reader, I hope, that some strangely canted imperative steers Nye's ill-informed, overt, and reflexive ufological denial. Truly, this is as his easy "psychosocial" cant does not advance the cause for vigorously serious investigation of the highly strange extant and, in fact, performs the exact opposite function! It does this in a manner so unctuously "reasonable" that it a tragedy it performs that function at all. All of the preceding seems pretty clear to me.
I bring this up now because Nye is lately so cleverly but misleadingly mal-informative with regard to the imposed mix of his non-informational and sneering appearances on Larry King and other places, which are unwelcome (to me), but his ax-grinding Disney ones elsewhere, which are even more so because they help qualify the former to young people.
50 years, plus, down the, decidedly not so happy, ufological trail... and we find that we've been standing indolently and fatuously at the starting gate, still, as I wrote above. Why is that, do you figure, good reader, I'll ask again. I think I outline a prime co-conspirator et sig al.
That's right, I submit that it's not the woo-woo buffoons and public whackos keeping us at the gate; they only evolve to fill the informational void created by the likes of Mr. Nye, et al! No, it is the insidiously contrived mechanizations of persons typified by Mr. Nye and other so-called "science guys" as apart from real science, I'm betting, as deep night is from blinding day... authoritative-like, and so disingenuous, contributions to our missed mark! There's where the blame comes to rest. That's where our indolence lies.
The Analogous Maladroit stands revealed. Despair his works and rejoice apart from same. It's the brave thing to do. Read on.
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*2 Jim Mortellaro
Disclaimer: UFOs are ill served by Mr. Nye who is almost magnificently uninformed and so misinforming in their regard to the point of a terrible malfeasance. In this area, he is to be deplored. His politics; however, are acceptable, and in the matter of the "Debate" betwixt Science and Religion, he is without parallel a force for progressive good. The Earth is not flat and Jesus did not play with dinosaurs unless you count chickens. Mr. Nye understands the dangers of a rigid intellectual insipidity inspired by faith which must, by religious definition, be untestable. A pity he can't apply a smidgen of that to UFOs. Drake has shown they are. Fermi points out they will. Seven categories of compelling evidence show they have. We're not alone, and that may not be a bad thing.
Disclaimer: UFOs are ill served by Mr. Nye who is almost magnificently uninformed and so misinforming in their regard to the point of a terrible malfeasance. In this area, he is to be deplored. His politics; however, are acceptable, and in the matter of the "Debate" betwixt Science and Religion, he is without parallel a force for progressive good. The Earth is not flat and Jesus did not play with dinosaurs unless you count chickens. Mr. Nye understands the dangers of a rigid intellectual insipidity inspired by faith which must, by religious definition, be untestable. A pity he can't apply a smidgen of that to UFOs. Drake has shown they are. Fermi points out they will. Seven categories of compelling evidence show they have. We're not alone, and that may not be a bad thing.
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