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From: Robert Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:25:33 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:19:48 -0500
Subject: Re: A Poststructuralist Take On The UFO Phenomenon


From: Michael Christol <mchristo@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:02:11 -0600
Fwd Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:57:49 -0500
Subject: Re: A Poststructuralist Take On The UFO Phenomenon

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>Am I to assume then that when Dean states: 'to claim to have
>seen a UFO, to have been abducted by aliens, or even to believe
>those who say they have' constitutes 'a political act' because
>it 'contests the status quo' - a status quo that is both
>political and epistemological;' that to make a political
>statement could be construed to 'violate the law of the land?' In
>essence to become a 'political criminal?'

>If this is so, then what do we surmise about the great men and
>women of the past who, through great inventions, change the
>'status quo' of accepted reality, and politically speaking:
'>violate the law of the land?'

>Does this make such people as: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham
>Bell, Nikola Tesla, Orvil and Wilber Wright, Madam Curie, Jonas
>Salk, and other great names criminals because they 'challanged'
>and 'prevailed' over the 'accepted reality of their times?'

As I recall from public education theory which has been
developed over the last 60 years or so, there are several types
of people who will respond differently to new information:

The Innovators: a small percentage (<5% or so?, I forget the
exact numbers) who first develop new ideas.


The Early Adopters (Maybe 25% or so of the population, who are
quick to pick up new ideas and adopt them.

The Late Adopters (Maybe 50% of the population, who may adopt a
new idea over the next 10 years or more)

Forgot what this group's called (25% of the population, who will
probably never adopt these new ideas, in their lifetimes.



Bob Young