Posthuman Blues

"I Want to Believe." You come across this phrase a lot while browsing UFO websites. I don't get it. Why would anyone want to believe in something? "Belief" implies a capacity for self-deception. Perhaps if the human race spent less of its time "believing" in things and more of its time thinking and deducing we wouldn't be forced up against the chilly wall of imminent chaos, vainly pretending all is well.

"Belief" is a sugar-coated suicide pill -- attractive, in a peculiar way, not without a certain mystical charm. But I fear it's a luxury we can't afford.