02-27-2024, 11:26 PM
(02-27-2024, 09:48 PM)jaded Wrote: OMG! (thud)
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Because the chasm between us & it is huge & a uphill battle, because contact is hit & miss, usually pointless from our perspective, might as well bring the humor & make some popcorn.
This is gonna take awhile.
I whole heartedly respect your answer, and at the risk if appearing disingenuous. I have to say we are like-minded without doubt.
I often resist watching these videos... not because of the topic... but because of the "form" they must take.
The host offers a few challenges (at best) to draw out the thinking of the guest, often not at all. Don't get me wrong, she made a valiant effort and pulled it off, but it seemed to me she failed to engage him on some key points that could have steered him towards UFOs and NHIs. Which seemed appropriate to me, since the gist of the "wrapper," so to speak, was in the title on the web page ("The Next Major Work in Ufology?") and to a lesser extent even the book (“Unidentified Flying Hyperobject: UFOs, Philosophy, and The End of The World.”) ... which seems to imply a significant relationship to UFOs.
But the bulk of the dialogue did not feel "on point" enough for me, so it left me feeling unsatisfied. It may be that his book isn't really about UFOs/NHIs but is instead about us (human intelligences.) He focuses on how the human paradigm, zeitgeist, or whatever functions as an impediment to understanding. ((I believe he feels this would exist for the NHIs as well.)) "We simply can't know that which we simply don't know," I would paraphrase. I found myself inferring that this book is more of a psychological and philosophical approach to the matter of how humans can't predict the unknown. UFO's sort of get lost in that argument.
Frankly, I hoped for bit more enthusiasm from the host to "wrangle the angle" or whatever it's called in the "pod cast" industry.
I don't really resent the plugging of his book. The truth is that it is "commerce" that drives the whole medium. It's unavoidable, and I didn't find it "over the top."
In my case, they succeeded in making me "keep an eye out" for the book. I intend to read it. And although this is only his second book, I think it could have some very useful considerations and ideas, if nothing else.
I can't promise that I can muster the patience to do that again though... at least not for a while.
