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Message: <blockquote data-quote="baphomet68" data-source="post: 4826263" data-attributes="member: 83462">Gnomes of Zurich to grant Sasqhach sanctuary; deny extradition to Vampire Illuminati     To spread the TRUTH, you have to hide in the cloak of a wingnut - otherwise THEY get wise to you.    We see what we expect to see. While mostly figurative (or symbolic), I see aliens and monsters all around us. Some people, adherents to the church of the Modern Rational, would appear to be constitutionally unable to see an Alien even if one landed in their driveway, popped out of its Flying Saucer and demanded to be taken to our leader. It seems that today one needs to be a member of the Modern Rational Church to fit in with the educated crowd. While perhaps not a formal organization, the church of the Modern Rational is a clearly body of Faith, with a cosmology and set of necessary assumptions no more provable or objective than the cult of the sinister saurian T.V. executives.      Daniken raises some ideas that are exciting to many people; many of us have wondered if the stories in the ancient books could have been inspired by alien visits, etc. I think relatively harmless wingnuts like him are so popular because they are so thin and non-threatening (to the C.M.R.), and are accessable to the general public, with no demanding or technical language. People that make better arguments in that vein (like David Icke) do not get as much attention, even though they have (sometimes) stronger arguments accompanied by more "factual facts".     Well written, competently argued compositions supporting ancient extraterrestrial astronauts or uncovering that the Unseelie Court and Supreme Court are in cahoots will never gather the attention that light, dismissable attempts achieve.  The OP was upset about the ancient Astronauts story being presented as a supported view. Even though the entertainment vector you select is called "History", it is still an entertainment vector. I was entertained; but sadly there is no danger of Daniken convincing any but the already converted. To get on the NYTimes best seller list, you have to be a nonthreatening crank like Daniken, or hide behind a veil and pretend to be "fiction", like the DaVinci code. To contrast us, the OP dislikes the presentation of Toy Fluff as Fact; I dislike the presentation of Fact as Toy Fluff. (both in reference to the ancient astronauts show/book)</blockquote>

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