Wednesday, August 1, 2018

The secret history of Marxist alien hunters | The Outline

https://theoutline.com/post/5384/the-secret-history-of-marxist-alien-hunters?zd=3&zi=f6sfzpqb

 

Though Ufologists tend to possess an anti-authoritarian streak (it's hard to be pro-"The Man" when you're convinced The Man is also lying to you about alien visitors), their singular focus on the truth being out there tends to overlook things like political economics.

 

After all, wouldn't the revelation of extraterrestrial intelligence be revolution enough? It's hard to imagine that the global order — let alone the hierarchies of nationality, class, race, and gender — would remain the same after such an occurrence. But they also ought to question what it means that this new vanguard of Ufology appears far more interested in securing funding and turning a profit than bringing liberatory truth to mankind.

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