this is one of the best explications I've watched on the phenomenon, it's just so strange that alien abductions as a cultural trope only appear in the literature after the Bugs Bunny cartoon in the early 1950s lol. It's definitely a Nuclear Age phenomenon to be obsessed with flying saucers.... psyop written all over it.
but the "collective hallucination" & Jungian "human spiritual/technological" aspiration woo-woo is somewhat uplifting, if completely hilarious and sad
Terence McKenna was definitely an anti-communist spook & "New Age" grifter who could deradicalize just as well as he could make flowery speeches about the "archons" & "object at the end of history" or whatever bullshit
https://youtu.be/gVvCZIGIyeg
this is one of the best explications I've watched on the phenomenon, it's just so strange that alien abductions as a cultural trope only appear in the literature after the Bugs Bunny cartoon in the early 1950s lol. It's definitely a Nuclear Age phenomenon to be obsessed with flying saucers.... psyop written all over it.
but the "collective hallucination" & Jungian "human spiritual/technological" aspiration woo-woo is somewhat uplifting, if completely hilarious and sad
Terence McKenna was definitely an anti-communist spook & "New Age" grifter who could deradicalize just as well as he could make flowery speeches about the "archons" & "object at the end of history" or whatever bullshit