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UFOs and Aliens
Assuming UFOs are aliens, and real, one of the interesting objections is that they seem to be morally ambivalent to whether or not humans succeed as a species. There are authors at Trail of the Saucers that inspire me, and sometimes provoke interesting thoughts. Bryce Zabel inspires me to want to write, and write well. In order to write well, you have to be able to think reasonably well. The Prime Directive as a metaphorical way of interacting with primitive species seems like a reasonable standard, except when situations are dire- and a civilization is poised on an extinction level event. Shouldn’t a superior, sentient species intervene? Well, it depends.
After reading two essays at Trail of Saucers this morning, my thoughts went here:
The things we have yet to overcome, as a species, seem overwhelming- and the direness of it all has failed to bring us together as a people. The interjection of an ambivalent alien, or aliens- would that be the right motivator? I mean, we have a paradigm for good cop bad cop, and yet all we did was play the roles more severely- exemplified in the Stanford Prison Experiment, or even The Milgram Shock Experiment.
The Milgram Experiment is a potential explanation for why a woman on a train can be raped while ten bystanders watch and do nothing. The moral ambiguity…
