Alien Rock Stars
Why do we think alien scientists would visit us? Are we that interesting? Maybe Space Bono is doing his flybys to raise awareness of our plight? Or maybe they are just general rock stars, and you know what kinds of things rock stars do on road trips?! Their actions do not have to be logical to us, we some how seem to feel that aliens wouldn't do illogical things why?
I hear the handwaving, dismissing that aliens would travel all this way just to probe someone. Really. How many humans travel to the jungles to probe apes? How many bored hicks driving down the road at night in the middle of nowhere just pull off the road to scare some animals or fire off their guns or take a piss? Why can we not attribute these same motives to others even if they are from another world?
When in the media, we portray aliens as homogeneous - they are all the same. People from a specific alien world all dress the same and act the same and have the same religion - no matter if the show is Star Trek, Star Wars, B5, or any other SciFi movie/show you can think of. Yet here, we do not even have that in the same country or town.
We then take this homogeneous view of aliens to new heights. They are all scientists, all have higher purposes in life, wouldn't do anything that we consider illogical, and would only have our best interests at heart. All lies of the myth of The Homogeneous Others!
So, next time you meet an alien, remember these words: run, he might be a rock star.
The Edward
4 comments:
Why do the aliens always have to be from outer space? Why couldn't they be from inner space, or side by side space, or just around the corner space, or next dimension space, or past space, or future space, or hallucination space? If there really is no past present and future separations, maybe they are us checking on us checking on us ad nauseum. And why are aliens always portrayed as having a similar body as humans - one head, two arms, two legs, two eyes, a mouth, and a midsection? Why are ears and noses not so usual? If they were truely aliens, they'd be the BEMs from Space Opera days, or have four arms for better multi-tasking, eyes in the back of their head to make sure they know what's coming as well as going, or some other objective than anally probing people. Really, what pertinent info are they gonna get that way other then discoving prostate issues before the human doctors?
I knew a rockstar and he was actually a pretty cool guy to hang out with. I think it would be worse if the aliens were salesmen. So instead of coming to earth to conduct research on humans or to steal our natural resources, the aliens would try to sell us crappy products we don't need, like cellphones that only work on the alien homeworld.
Indeed, aliens are a diverse group - much more diverse than anything the human mind can imagine. And yet they all wear the same clothes and have the same political and religious beliefs. And they all have the same job - stern guardians of truth and justice. No probing other aliens just for giggles. No fly-bys while on tour. All just sane, sensible people.
I know a few celebrities, including a rock star or two. I have even seen some of them being interviewed on tv and some have their own shows. I've seen the things they do to people, and have heard their stories. I haven't really seen or met a sensible one. All of them talk about the things that they do to other people once they got some power. The stories of the things they made people do... if even half of them are true, I imagine that the aliens that have visited us are probably rock stars on their home world.
All this talk of power reminds me of a Zen quote that I will mess up here: Before Zen, then mountain is a mountain. After the student learns Zen, the mountain is no longer a mountain. After the student has mastered Zen, the mountain is once again a mountain.
The same with power. Once a human finds out he/she has power over people, they go a little mad with that power, they see people as playthings. After they have mastered it, they go back to being real people again.
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