For a while, I have had the thought that, by referring to UFOs and ETs as a singular phenomenon (or by asserting that there has always been the same ET presence on Earth), and by assigning uniform traits to each of the beings, we might be doing ourselves an analytic disservice. Of course, analysis of the subject is difficult enough as it is, and this would only make navigating it all the more complex; and, prejudicial as it may be, stereotyping is fundamentally a pattern-constructing method.
But it is possible that, for instance, humans' interactions with a certain kind of ET might be representative of those beings' race inasmuch as an outsider's interaction with, say, some faction of a nation's military-scientific industrial complex would be representative of humanity as a whole. It is not a matter of course, for instance, that the beings mentioned in the Book of Enoch -- were we to interpret them as ETs -- are the same faction of certain beings seen in the 20th and 21st centuries.
We can most obviously see this tendency to stereotype play out in our genres of science-fiction and fantasy, where this or that race is characterized according to, say, some uniform emotional trait, while humans are depicted as being relatively dynamic because they occupy a behavioral median. So, despite perhaps looking similar, there may be notable differences between, say, the ETs observing nuclear bases or sites for weaponry testing and some of the ETs who abduct humans.
Submitted January 19, 2022 at 01:33PM by Abrbarzan https://ift.tt/3tMsnHH
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