tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297935984616304783.post2548807324148669570..comments2024-02-26T03:03:24.947-05:00Comments on The UFO Trail: Where the UFO Trail WindsJack Brewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778028283888927074noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297935984616304783.post-61585320066385205862014-01-18T13:14:36.433-05:002014-01-18T13:14:36.433-05:00Thank you very much, Brian. Your comments and insi...Thank you very much, Brian. Your comments and insights are most appreciated.Jack Brewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05778028283888927074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297935984616304783.post-19720195537737814002014-01-18T10:56:06.574-05:002014-01-18T10:56:06.574-05:00Compliments and kudos, Jack, for your interesting,...Compliments and kudos, Jack, for your interesting, engaging features. The informative, thoughtful emphasis you bring strikes me as highly appreciable - at least, for inquiring minds not swept away by any premature conclusions or biasing 'paradigms' that pervade, and tend to dominate such subject matter. <br /><br />Your boldly-going, no-holds-barred focus of inquiry comes across as more exception than rule (obviously) for this saucerology business. As such it presents a welcome change of pace from the 'customary and usual' one encounters. <br /><br />Vallee seems to me one of a few-and-far-between in this field, who has likewise sounded notes of credible perspective. One reflection I find of this in your discussion above, is your astute note - of key relevance:<br /><br />"(T)he public wants ... to believe or reject a story ... people do not want to be told you don't have a conclusive answer..."<br /><br />I feel that touches a vital dynamic of greater, more critical importance than often realized by rational mindsets, normally at the forefront of critical inquiry. On impression, this may be due to some inherent subtlety of its scope and scale as human phenomenon - fundamentally ambiguous rather than rational per se, thus difficult to reckon with by discursive logic and standard methods. <br /><br />In CONFRONTATIONS, Vallee notes (true to your point, I think): "The public is disappointed and angry at an expert who dares say, 'I don’t know.' "<br /><br />One gets a sense of the depth of dilemma, and the obscurity of challenge, facing any inquiry along the ufo trail, attempting to peel back the layers of questions in evidence. To dig down beneath overlying strata and try to get at the bedrock, closer to answers - or even clarification of questions, sometimes - seems a formidable prospect. All the more to applause for your blog - which I'm enjoying immensely and learning a great deal from. With keen regards.<br /><br />Brian Akershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09350950418007260040noreply@blogger.com