Today's example: the UFO Provocateur(s) blog (now there's an unassuming name) have decided that when all those in the UFO field die off, it will be a good thing. Oh Happy Day. The "UFO palate" (oh, pleeeeeze!) shall be cleansed, they tell us. Oy.
After the elders die off, the young will swoop in with new bright ideas and new bright energy and save UFOLogy from itself.
What a load of crap. Young, old, in between, people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, skills and perspectives are contributing their thoughts to UFOlogy and related fields. It's mostly and usually a good thing.
If UFOlogy stinks, it isn't because it's "old people" or middle aged people, or baby boomers. It's not because there is a lack of some holy UFO Organization, or union, or guild, or whatever the hell some people want to get up and running. (However,UFOlogy will surely start to reek of its own self importance if the latter ever happens. Which, happily, it won't. It's a glad thing that UFOlogy is full of all kinds of people, of all ages and types. What kind of rational being thinks you can get all these types of people together in one cohesive thing? How long will such a thing last before a group of ticked off individuals leave to start their own UFO Guild of UFO High and Mightiness? Then what? We're back where we started, having lost a lot of time in the process.)
In fact, UFOlogy doesn't stink at all. People who think that are mostly debunkers; anti-UFOists, snarly little skeptics. Some are actually inside UFOlogy themselves, but for some twisted reasons of their own, don't like that fact much, so have to qualify their presence. That includes saying things like "UFOlogy is a circus,"
and bemoaning the sad, sorry state of things while sneering at others. They've come to the party and eat all the appetizers and drink all the booze but keep checking their watches. And they won't stay to help clean up.
Meanwhile, the world outside of UFOlogy goes on, whether those of us inside are young, old, baby boomers, middle aged, or whatever. The mainstream media continues to ridicule and ignore, the authorities continue to cover-up, the relatives think you're crazy.
Nothing is going to change that either. It's the way of things.
So you either be brave and true within yourself, and do what you do, and tell your story. You learn about others and think upon them. You express yourself, you discover. You do your best to ignore the bozos. And here's a clue little mister, the bozos aren't the My Reptilian Lizard Lover victims, the bozos are the ones who think they're above it all, who believe their views gives them the right to insult, as if being insulting is a sign of intellectual superiority. We expect that from the aforementioned snarly skeptics, the debunkers and those types. But when it comes from within, it's a different story.
They're not only ill mannered little buggers, but naive little buggers. They don't get that nothing much will change on the outside, no matter how many Approved UFO Think Tanks are created, or how dismissive they are about UFO experiences.
Now here's fair warning: the part where I get all Shirley MacLaine-ish. Things on the outside are beginning to change, and humans have the potential to help that change, regardless of a "belief" in UFOs or things Fortean. Our thoughts and energy affect the ways things go. Calm down, I'm not ridiculous enough to think that's all you have to do; wave a crystal around and you're done. But focusing your intent and holding that intent on a daily basis can only help.
You can choose your intent, your battles, where to put your focus. You can grumble and poke things with sticks, or you can snap out of it and be a bit more compassionate.
