The UFO Message

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Marshall McLuhan told us the medium is the message and philosopher Jacques Derrida reminded us that the message is the message.

What both forgot to highlight is the messenger.

My company – IA – provides surveys to TV owners and managements about how their staffers, on-air and to-be, fare when it comes to viewer acceptance. We use social demographics and psychometric data in our analyses of who is liked and disliked visually.

I find myself doing the same when it comes to seeing or reading UFO material, much of it online or via television programming.

Let me note that Facebook has been a revelation…

While I (and others: Diana Pasulka, fraudster Kal Korff, von Däniken, nowadays, et al.) use publicity shots of a kind to present ourselves as relatively vibrant and unugly, many UFO long-timers do not.

The now infirm, many in ill-health (which shows), scruffy (unshaven or bearded), sloppy and unattractive, even homely showcase themselves as if looks don’t matter.

They don’t matter, really, but when one is presenting a message, they do. (The studies, listed at our site offer bona vides.)

Jacques Vallee and J. Allen Hynek always maintained their credibility by offering a façade of dignity and well-kempt propriety, no sleaziness in their presentations.

Online photos of bedraggled persons, offering what they hope are messages with credibility and cachet offset their intent and wish by packaging that message with homely wrapping.

You can suggest that what I’m making a case for – augmented UFO presentations since the phenomenon is intrinsically iffy itself – is without merit: no one cares about how one looks, or shouldn’t care.

But that’s not how the psychology of acceptance works.

RR

http://ufocon.blogspot.com – The UFO Iconoclast(s)