VisionarysQuixote - The Monday Morning Memo

“I’m one of those who’s a little worried when we give our return address, broadcast out into space, because you don’t give your email to strangers in the street. Yet we’re giving the coordinates of Earth broadcast out into the gaps of interstellar space.

So I’m a little worried about that.

But then I think about it, and I say, ‘Nearly every portrayal of an alien in Hollywood is evil.’ Going right on back to War of the Worlds with HG Wells.

And I’m thinking, ‘Why? Do we have any insights that aliens would be evil? Or is it really a mirror to ourselves?’

It’s not imagined knowledge of how aliens would behave. It’s actual knowledge of how we have behaved. Because an alien coming to Earth has a greater technology than we do.

So how has it gone on earth?

Any time a civilization with higher technology encounters one with lesser technology, it has never boded well for the society with lesser technology. They’ve been enslaved, killed.

So I think we fear aliens because, in fact, we fear ourselves.”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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