Greetings Bear ...
> The public seems to be its own worst enemy in these cases. > Most read the stories, then turned to the tawdry capers of the > likes of Paris Hilton or somebody like her, as she had not made > her mark on the world yet when that incident happened. Like > any other story it had its fifteen minutes of fame and then sunk > out of sight and out of mind. ... > > Standing Bear > Agreed. We are creatures of habit and we enjoy entertaining ourselves. As long as UFO phenomenon remains speculative it can be relegated to the harmless realms of entertainment. The more debatable and controversial the entertainment, the more commercially viable its entertainment value can be. Handled just right everyone can make a buck off of the phenomenon, including believers, skeptics and debunkers. TV programming, movies, books, and magazines figured this out long ago. We all love to speculate (entertain ourselves) about what all those strange silly lights are, whether they be aliens, angels, or the spawn of Satan's loins. The key point being: as long as we continue perceiving the phenomenon primarily as "entertainment" we always have the choice, the empowerment of being able to press the OFF BUTTON when its time to go to bed. If just one of those thingies in real life completely evaded our country's haistly scrambled defense systems and obnoxiously parked in front of our Capitol's Steps (As the new Klatu, aka Keanu Reeves may very well do in what its producers hope will turn out to be an ENTERTAINING remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still", to be released in major theatres in the summer of 2008! ;-) ) – it's entertainment value is essentially destroyed. The incident would likely cause so much unpredictable distraction that the majority of paying magazine and cable subscribers would essentially care less that Britney Spears was once again spotted in public sans underwear. Oops! Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
