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UFO/Aliens
Who Are We
As individuals, as nations, we all rely on our history and our understanding of our place in the world to define who we are and how we should respond. Saying choice is an illusion, there is no free will, denies the existence of cultural responses to any phenomenon. Some people wear white to funeral and black to weddings. Some people smile for photos, some people look serious. UFOs are real, and we are in for one hell of an existential ride.
John Ramirez, retired CIA, suggests in a recent podcast that aliens don’t look like us, we look like them, because they made us. Klee Irwin, Quantum Gravity Research, on the other hand suggests UFO’s are piloted by us from the future.
Is it better to meet yourself at the end of a long hallway, or a stranger?
What to make of ourselves.
We are our stories. We remake ourselves all the time. Who we are is so malleable, we’re exploring changing everything about us. We can make ourselves taller. We can change genders. We can make our brown eyes blue. With CRISPR on the table, it might even be feasible to make ourselves less than human.
If we re-wrote our DNA in every cell, would be still have a base human substrate, or would we be a new…
