Entertainment and Advertising supersede Research and Thought

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I regularly seek out the Bill Murphy [Anomalist] links to the Mysterious Universe site where my pal Nick Redfern, Micah Hanks et al. write.

But I’m offput by all the ads inserted, ubiquitously, in copy, disturbing the content and one’s attempt to understand that content.

Does Mysterious Universe need the few pennies those ads bring to the site (owners)?

If someone wants to communicate some ideas or information and can’t do it without ads, they should forego the process and their effort(s).

Capitalism has usurped the path to information to the point that commerce is the fill-up of airspace and media time/space, now infecting blogs, podcasts, web-sites, newscasts and communication generally.

And on top of that, much found on Mysterious Universe and other online spaces is sheer entertainment. People go to the sites, not to be edified but to be entertained. No one is coming away enhanced intellectually or in some other way.

Even Nick Redfern’s often enlightening missives are treated as fodder for the soppy brains of UFOers who are just looking, lately (as I’ve noted elsewhere) to be temporarily thrilled of titillated.

Thought has been replaced by commercial sleaze and human passivity.

Those ads all over the place at MU and other online UFO oriented sites are diverting and lower class, mostly ignored but still disorienting for anyone wishing to gather something worthwhile.

That Mysterious Universe or UFO Chronicles needs a few cents rather some real sense is more than sad; it’s pathetic.

RR

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