{"id":173625,"date":"2021-05-21T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=202403"},"modified":"2021-05-21T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:54:11","slug":"ufos-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/21\/ufos-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"UFOs Again and Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of this year, I wrote an article for\u00a0Counterpunch\u00a0arguing that UFO sightings were a new kind of quasi-religion based on the cultural peculiarities of modern post-war America: technologism, managerism, a decline in traditional religions, cold war &#8220;after-glow&#8221;, and last but not least a pervasive sense of loss of control over one&#8217;s destiny and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/21\/ufos-again-and-again\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/21\/ufos-again-and-again\/\">UFOs Again and Again<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/21\/ufos-again-and-again\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of this year, I wrote an article for\u00a0Counterpunch\u00a0arguing that UFO sightings were a new kind of quasi-religion based on the cultural peculiarities of modern post-war America: technologism, managerism, a decline in traditional religions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173704,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173625\/revisions\/173704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}