Technology Happens Fall 1996

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You can't escape them:

Aliens, yes, extraterrestrials. There have been 25 reported sightings in the last 24 hours. A graduate student in Detroit, Michigan, saw several at a 7-Eleven newsstand. Hours later a mother of four in Austin, Texas, states that she found them in her kids laundry. A crowd of fifty reports being abducted by extraterrestrials from inside a Long Island movie theater.

Have these "X-philes" discovered first-hand proof of alien existence? Yes, aliens have invaded our culture through websites, TV shows, advertisements, films, merchandise, books, and articles. According to a recent poll by Carl Pfluger in Southwest Review (Vol. 78), 50 percent of Americans believe aliens exist-while less than half that many believe in the existence of Jesus as Savior.

Why is society more ready to accept the existence of aliens than that of Jesus?

A pop-culture investigation into this growing alien craze and the puzzling evidence for a pre-millennium invasion:

Exhibit 1 >> Seeing Leads to Believing

Science fiction has convinced us of the extraterrestrial possibility. It has swept us up in the fantasy of fifty years of dazzling special effects and engaging plots. We are the first generation to grow up with vivid, realistic, on-screen representations of extraterrestrials. Compare the story of Jesus told on a Sunday-school flannel board with the Dolby sound and Industrial Light & Magic effects of Spielberg's E.T.

Exhibit 2 >> Aliens Are the New Solution

Pfluger sums it up: that so many are so eager to surrender themselves to the ufos "suggests that more and more people are finding human life unbearable. … [T]hey yearn for an eschatological Final Act that will end at last all the ambiguities of our ...

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