Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Mad Jesus's avatar

We can only hope they can't communicate with the animals, plants, or planet. If the plants and animals tell them how humans have treated them and the human disregard for the planet in general it may not be so fun not being the most advanced, top intelligence at all.

Expand full comment
Freeman69's avatar

It's worse than you think - if that's the way you think.

Even if a craft landed by the White House and its occupants claimed to officially represent another world, how could we confirm any claims they made? We'd have no means of distinguishing good intentions from bad over the long term. Acts of apparent hostility could be performed by individuals or by official sanction and we wouldn't be able to tell the difference. How could we retaliate or even identify a valid target?

They could affect our minds remotely or expose our senses directly to extremely strange situations. We'd have virtually no control and no means of telling reality from hallucination.

Kids are taught not to speak to strangers, so there's a general tendency for adults not to engage in conversation with kids (depending on the circumstances).

Welcome to a new normal where everyone on Earth is a minor in a far more complex reality.

(This has probably always been the situation; we're just starting to become of aware of it.)

Expand full comment
25 more comments...

No posts