Many religious beliefs have in them an idea of a savior. A being that will come down to save the day. Clean up the streets, and smite the wicked. Even the so called new age has their own version with various ET's coming to rescue humanity. It's a wonderful thought and takes us back to the sheltered days of childhood. Where mom or dad would always be there to swoop in and save the day. Grow up people, no one is coming to save us! If someone does show up with the promise of salvation we would be in a Buddha on the side of the road situation.
Lets look a little closer at the idea that ET will save us from ourselves. This sounds nice. I mean what could be so wrong with some friendly ET coming with tech so far in advance of ours, it takes care of our problems like they are silly, and trivial. On the surface it sounds great, a more depth will reveal the falsehood. If lets start with, any ET group that would be willing to work with individual nation states is likely not a group with humanities best interests in mind. Any ET group that would be advanced enough to make the interstellar, or inter-dimensional trip here would have solved the same problems we are currently facing, or managed to avoid them all together. Either way we already have everything we need to solve our problems, all we are lacking is the will to do so. If you want to know why intervention is always a bad idea look no farther earth history. Even when one nation intervenes in another nation it invariably goes awry. An easy way to look at it is from the perspective of a child living in their parents home. If ET showed up and fixed the planet, and implemented system to solve our social issues, it would no longer be our society it would be theirs. If there is a galactic federation of some kind we would create a cancer inside it if they interacted with us now. Our dealings even among friends are filled with deceit, and mistrust. Why would you as an outsider want to become embroiled in our petty global politics? If you do are you someone we really want involved?
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
Lets look a little closer at the idea that ET will save us from ourselves. This sounds nice. I mean what could be so wrong with some friendly ET coming with tech so far in advance of ours, it takes care of our problems like they are silly, and trivial. On the surface it sounds great, a more depth will reveal the falsehood. If lets start with, any ET group that would be willing to work with individual nation states is likely not a group with humanities best interests in mind. Any ET group that would be advanced enough to make the interstellar, or inter-dimensional trip here would have solved the same problems we are currently facing, or managed to avoid them all together. Either way we already have everything we need to solve our problems, all we are lacking is the will to do so. If you want to know why intervention is always a bad idea look no farther earth history. Even when one nation intervenes in another nation it invariably goes awry. An easy way to look at it is from the perspective of a child living in their parents home. If ET showed up and fixed the planet, and implemented system to solve our social issues, it would no longer be our society it would be theirs. If there is a galactic federation of some kind we would create a cancer inside it if they interacted with us now. Our dealings even among friends are filled with deceit, and mistrust. Why would you as an outsider want to become embroiled in our petty global politics? If you do are you someone we really want involved?
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
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