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Originally posted by Mr_skepticc
Great post so far everyone; however, If you read back on what I have written my point is this. These guys and others like them are selling this stuff as fact! Isn't that fraud? Shouldn't it be illegal to write about things that you are calling facts, or speak about them - when in fact they are not facts!
Sure we know their frauds, but others who are hard-core believers do just that ,,,Believe! Isn't it kinda a duty to save our fellow brothers who really don't know any better and are being sucked out of their ass-hole into buying this stuff?edit on 4-4-2012 by Mr_skepticc because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by akalepos
I am of the opinion that literary agents would rather publish entertaining lies, than anything that would actually educate the public on any given issue.
Originally posted by Mr_skepticc
Ok here it is.
Do any of you guys not believe that it's wrong for anyone to profit off the topic of ufos, and aliens?
Originally posted by Furbs
Originally posted by akalepos
I am of the opinion that literary agents would rather publish entertaining lies, than anything that would actually educate the public on any given issue.
It is my opinion, an opinion supported by the amount of research journals sold versus how many books about even a small genre like 'Ufology' are sold, that the public would rather read entertaining lies than be educated on any given issue.
I will continue to put the blame squarely where it is due. The audience that buys the garbage. If their wasn't an audience for this crap, we wouldn't write it. Myself included.
Originally posted by akalepos
Originally posted by Furbs
Originally posted by akalepos
I am of the opinion that literary agents would rather publish entertaining lies, than anything that would actually educate the public on any given issue.
It is my opinion, an opinion supported by the amount of research journals sold versus how many books about even a small genre like 'Ufology' are sold, that the public would rather read entertaining lies than be educated on any given issue.
I will continue to put the blame squarely where it is due. The audience that buys the garbage. If their wasn't an audience for this crap, we wouldn't write it. Myself included.
I can't argue with you much here.
I have just noticed that the agents these days are more interested in whatever can entertain readers rather than engage with the ideas of the free flow of information these days. More interested in soft women's porn than something that might contribute to the current discussions that are important in our little current world. Also people with recognizable names can draw sales no matter how specious the info in the writing is.
It's just the way it is. To me they are simply moral/ethical cowards.
I'm not trying to create any insult here. It is simply the way I see things based on experience.
Agents are interested in the same thing agents have always been interested in. Money. Morals and Ethics play into it, but why are the people writing books that they claim to be fact at fault for the ignorance of the population?