Aliens as Modern Myth: How UFO Discourse Reveals Our World-Building Instinct and Imaginative Longing

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Aliens captivate because they satisfy our instinct to create stories about the unknown, turning UFO talk into a modern myth that helps us believe and imagine, a tendency echoed by Chesterton and Tolkien and connected to Genesis.

What the Aliens Tell Us About Us – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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What the Aliens Tell Us About Us – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Aliens are in the news again. Not because we’ve recently spotted some new craft that looks like it might just belong to an all-wise extraterrestrial being, but because conspiracy theorists and rabbit-hole-diving hobbyists are excited about a slew of documents they just might finally get their hands on from the…