Hi John. Sorry for the slow reply. I’ll try to address your various questions/comments. Yes, there is a theme to my philosophical writings, which is to encourage people to think beyond the standard narratives and engage in their own research and thinking. Yes, I have a PhD and I’ve taught university-level philosophy courses for 20 years. No, I am not new to the UFO subject. I first started reading about it in the late 1970s when I was very young. I’ve always had a fascination for what lies beyond the mainstream including in music, https://medium.com/p/i-am-a-nobody-doing-something-in-the-music-industry-74f0c6591606, and with mysteries, https://medium.com/inserting-philosophy/is-the-curse-of-oak-island-the-reality-show-we-deserve-f5d56c45b1bf.
My views on the UFO subject are the results of over 40 years of reading, watching, and listening to all sides. My article and video on the Disclosure narrative express my thought that pretty much everyone has yet to understand what the UFO phenomena are. There’s something interesting going on, but though I am not a skeptic, I have yet to be convinced that any sighting has indicated an EBE origin for the phenomena. And to give my view context, I am highly favorable to Loeb’s theory of Oumuamua. I agree with what you say that we are at risk of missing the ordinary. If I had to make a scholarly conclusion about the UFO phenomena, I’d say there are several not yet understood atmospheric phenomena that will explain the so far unexplained sightings. I don’t like that conclusion, but it’s to that that the evidence leads. Science, despite its bravado, has a limited understanding of terrestrial phenomena. There’s so many great truths still to discover in the ordinary, let’s pour our energy into those rather than invent extraordinary tales. That’s part of why my article and video pans the Disclosure narrative, because it disingenuously sensationalizes a set of phenomena that is better understood as expressions of how human beings are. That actually is my greatest interest: understanding how people thing and feel and where that leads.
To your suggestion that we need to convince government and academia to take the EBO hypothesis seriously, I say, with respect, I could come up with dozens of subjects of greater urgency and importance they need to take seriously. We can’t get the masses, much leaders, to pay attention to our ordinary problems. My wish is that everyone spending their time and energy on the Disclosure narrative would spend them instead on the pressing problems we face. That, more than anything, was the purpose and theme of my article and video.
Cheers.
