the fragmentation of knowledge and its incompletion; the inability, and sometimes, even irrelevance of conceptual knowledge on a society’s cosmology. Additionally, there is often an irrelevance of the concept of cosmology itself. Order gives way to fracture and ambiguity (analytically, at least), if there ever was order in the first place. It is thus not simply the ufological “absurd” in Chile, as I have described it, that “lacks” an idea of order or principle. Many complex shamanic or religious cosmoses are also patently “lacking” it, at least from the perspective of those who live them through and through.

— UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge by Diana Espirito Santo (Page 141)