I was just searching around the UFO web-sphere on my lunch break and came across Valiens blog and the low down on some of the stuff from the X conference. Sounds like the next paracast is gonna be great! Do not miss it!
Bassett is definitely a super feisty dude who likes to draw and stick to his conclusions. Maybe he watches too much political TV, where people who have really strong opinions/conclusions and are aggressive are the ones who are rewarded. Seems like a common Type A trait to argue something into the ground even if your wrong . Which is good for ratings, but in private you'd think people would be more open to other views. Kind of reminds me of my brother actually, there is no point in debating him on anything and he is an aggressive guy like Steve.. Let him cling to his fragile ETH, as long as he can get some credible guys out to my neck of the woods once a year and push the issue with the mass media, I'll check out the x conference.
I can say in his defense, that working an event like that, mostly by yourself for 4 days would make anyone crazy exhausted to the max. My work has several conferences year round and even though they have an entire department that works on these things, everyone has to be on call 24 hours a day for like 4-5 days and afterwards the people usually take 1-2 week vacations after each event. It is brutal.
On a side note, my only face to face interaction with Steve was when they didn't give me tickets to the dinner when I registered and I when I asked him what I should do in the absolute nicest way possible he said very intensely, "Okay okay, just relax...". Which was strange since I was about as cool and nonchalant as you could get. I sensed a little bit of social disconnect in his reaction, he could be mildly socially retarded as I like to label people who's fidelity levels in social interactions seem a bit.......... off. But Steve did give me 2 tickets out of his personal stash from his pocket since he felt bad, so it was actually a nice thing he did.
Bottom line, he is a hyper intense dude and has set views on things for better or worse. Not worth trying to open his mind to anything, but I think he is worth continuing to work with since he at least tries to 'act' more than just 'talk'. I think if in fact he says he is not supporting the Greers of the world, he needs to be more vocal about not being in the 'exopolitics' camp, which he doesn't do, so I think he is on a slippery slope there and I bet he adjusts his verbal support a little bit depending on who he shares company with. I think I probably do that as well
I also think steve is a really stubborn dude who sticks to 'his' ways of doing things. I once emailed him several local marketing ideas for getting people to the x-conference, rather than just depend on the national UFO media. But as far as I can tell, the only people who know about the X conference in DC are people who already listen to the UFO national media stuff.
I think for him to get a story in the DC City Paper would be very realistic and would boost attendence or even getting on some local college radio stations or even getting a street team to hand out fliers to people coming off strategic metro stop locations are pretty basic things. It's one thing to travel across the country for a conference, it's quite another to have to drive 10 minutes down the street. The only reason I go to the X conference is that it's a ten minute drive!
I really can't wait to hear the next episode!
Also, about Jeff's post on his blog (which I just managed to locate yesterday and everyone should check out- http://www.thesecondeclipse.com/blog/), I do find that meeting people in person often changes your perception of them, even if you completely disagree with them. I bet even the evil George Bush would be a fun a guy to have a couple drinks with, in the same way that playing checkers with the antichrist could be fun ..... I kid I kid, or am I?
