Reinventing Reality By Deconstruction
A mystery is upon us that reorients the empirical upon a foundation that appears to be shifting, from a world view that is statistic, autonomic and in severe homeostasis to one of curiousity, speculation and dialog, all of which can be traced to a lone Piper Cub piloted by one kenneth Arnold who saw a staged, demonstrative example of reorientation, perhaps an initiation into a superimpostion, a reinvention of the world view that, for centuries, placed us into lockstep with scientific pragmantism.
If anything can be gathered as wheat rather than chaff from the UFO phenomenon, is that the questioning of our critical assumptions is perhaps more important than any answer it could provide us with.
Perhaps we have been compelled to reexamine, in retrospect, what bricks we have placed in a wall that has isolated us from the natural world. How can we place a value upon this? The answer is that perhaps the reenchantment of the rut we find ourselves following without question or self examination is long overdue, and this when all is said and done, after we have looked under every rock, examined every fragment, revisited every assumption, read every book, we will have done for ourselves what no school could have taught us which is to think for ourselves and to question every edict at length.
Whatever or whomever is the origin of this phenomenon that prodded us to move off the mark by moving the markers has done us a great service.
Could we have arrived at such a place without a shock, a deconstructive whack across the back of our heads? I doubt it.
Bruce Duensing
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Terence McKenna and J. Vallee allow as how it is not as yet possible to be able to determine what the UFOs are, what is more plain is what they do. What they do seems to undermine authority, humiliate science, and provide for an irresistible sedition of individuals. That's a pretty healthy whack on the back of the head, eh?
The back of my neck still smarts and I should have a bump the size of a Volkswagen tattooed on my skull. Thank you. I needed that.
A tatted bump! Wotta concept! Still, it's authority's bump, I think, and not ours so much. You and I are just two of the meek set to inherit the Earth! LOL!
Is it really our "reality" which must be reconstructed? Or, would it be our deluded assumptions about "reality" that need reassessment?
That whacking sound at the back of your head would be reality, desperately trying to break through the density of our thick skulls. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about we humans is our troubling resilience in maintaining our deeply entrenched delusional mindsets even in the face of successive cascades of paradigm challenging head thumping.
Sort of gives new meaning to the term "egg-head", eh?
Pride goes, and then the fall, I've read. Though that unweening hubris you allude to —as it pertains to skulls of a thickness equally unweening— is really ironic given that from the other side of the universe that "jewel in the the crown of creation" that is man... all that it is and all that it can perceive with its own surely primitive instruments can be neatly obscured by a single and very ordinary grain of sand.
First the pride. Then the fall.
...Oh, sorry... I meant to say further that the absence of _some_ prides (egos) can perhaps preclude that fall, at all.
Please Mr. Duesning, get your facts right before you spout off. Ken Arnold was NOT flying a Piper Cub. He was flying a CallAir especilly modified for mountain flying. If
you are reading UFO magazine, you need memory improvemenet lessons.
Please Mr. Duesning, get your facts right before you spout off. Ken Arnold was NOT flying a Piper Cub. He was flying a CallAir especilly modified for mountain flying. If
you are reading UFO magazine, you need memory improvemenet lessons.