25 May 2009

State of Disturbia - Nope. There really isn't anything out there.

Monster Quest. UFO Hunters. Paranormal shows. Psychic kids. Where do these shows belong and why is there an audience for them? Every single one of them ends with the affirmation:

"While they didn't find what they started out to find, we did learn some valuable information along the way..."
Or

"We may never know what actually happened in the house that night..."
Or

"Whether you believe in these stories or not, what you have to admit is that there is something out there..."

Not one. Not one single shred of hard scientific evidence has been uncovered for anything. Centuries of folks have preyed on the meek by pretending they did. Piltdown man to the Loch ness hoax to Patterson. I would pay money if someone could show me scientific proof beyond a .5 second clip edited down for television viewing. But it will never happen.

What is Big Foot? A giant ape or bear walking bi-pedally

What is the Loch Ness monster? Who cares. You can't see anything in the water anyway. And if it were caught, what exactly would you do with it? Kill it for examination, thereby destroying the myth and possibly a lineage? Photograph it and then let it go? What is the point? To prove you have the biggest balls because you saw this and nobody else has?
Do werewolves exist? No
Do Vampires exist? No.

Crypto hunters are the ultimate self-serving egotists in this pseudo scientific world.

But the absolute worst is Ghost Hunters. Hanging their hat on dust and possible sounds and suggestive voices heard on recordings. EVP is shit.

"Now listen here. You'll hear a little girl cry out 'mama stay'" It's a mind trick and it's not real.
Don't cut to commercial. Don't show me shaky films. Don't run out of there screaming and crying like a little girl when something actually does appear. Stay there, show me hard scientific evidence and that's a show I'll tune in to. I won't believe it any more, but I'll tune in.

Let the listener listen first to determine if there is anything viable. Other than that and the power of suggestion trumps.

There used to be a good show on the radio that was intriguing because of the host in addition to the topics. Now, it's mindless PBS programming that bores the crap out of me. Never liked the new host and like the current format even less.

In reality, crypto hunts are a religous cult. The same way that Catholicism and Buddhism and Islam and Christianity are all cults. You pay a weekly fee to belong and in return you get to believe that there is something other than your mundane existence. Even if you never contribute more than your share outside of the cult, because you contribute to the cult, you get the free pass when you die. Essentially, God is a whore and you are an eternal john.

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