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55. Thanks. Don't blame you or anyone for the absurdity of the topic of UFOs.

Jacques Vallee said the phenomenon is absurd on its face. From Good Reads, an excerpt from "Messengers of Deception":

“The absurdity of many UFO stories and of many religious visions is not a superficial logical mistake. It may be the key to their function. According to Major Murphy (Vallee's amalgamation of military and intelligence figures used in the book), the confusion in the UFO mystery may have been put there deliberately to achieve certain results. One of these results has been to keep scientists away. The other is to create the conditions for a new form of social control, a change in Man’s perception of his place in the universe. Are his theories fantastic? Before we decide, let us review a few other facts. We need to examine more closely the political connections.

Paris Flammonde, in his well-documented Age of Flying Saucers, remarked that “a great many of the contactees purvey philosophies which are tinged, if not tainted, with totalitarian overtones.”1

A catalogue of contactee themes, compiled from interviews I have conducted, includes the following.

Intellectual abdication. The widespread belief that human beings are incapable of solving their own problems, and that extraterrestrial intervention is imperative to save us “in spite of ourselves.” The danger in such a philosophy is that it makes its believers dependent on outside forces and discourages personal responsibility: why should we worry about the problems around us, if the Gods from Outer Space are about to solve them?

Racist philosophy. The pernicious suggestion that some of us on the Earth are of extraterrestrial descent and therefore constitute a “higher race.” The dangers inherent in this belief should be obvious to anybody who hasn’t forgotten the genocides of World War II, executed on the premise that some races were somehow “purer” or better than others. (Let us note in passing that Adamski’s Venusian, the Stranger of the Canigou seen by Bordas, and many other alleged extraterrestrials were all tall Aryan types with long blond hair.)

Technical impotence. The statement that the birth of civilization on this planet resulted not from the genius and ability of mankind, but from repeated assistance by higher beings. Archaeologists and anthropologists are constantly aware of the marvelous skill with which the “Ancient Engineers” (to use L. Sprague de Camp’s phrase) developed the tools of civilization on all continents. No appeal to superior powers is necessary to explain the achievements of early culture. The belief expressed by the contactees reveals a tragic lack of trust on their part in human ability.

Social utopia. Fantastic economic theories, including the belief that a “world economy” can be created overnight, and that democracy should be abolished in favor of Utopian systems, usually dictatorial in their outlook.”

― Jacques F. Vallée, Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11830123-the-absurdity-of-many-ufo-stories-and-of-many-religious

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By absurd, Vallee means the UFO phenomenon -- whatever it is behind the public "acts" of lights in the sky, objects on the ground, contact with humanoids, etc., represents an intelligence applying unknown science and technologies that doesn't make sense because "They" are not logical, or reasonable, or act in a straightforward and scientific way as our space explorers would.