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minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·11 months agoImagine we come to learn that we’re the absolute biggest assholes in all of the universe, and that’s why all the alien homies avoid us.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoI’d expect advanced alien civilisations to be further along at evolving beyond their atavistic impulses. We have a long way to go there.
minus-squareStJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·11 months agoTechnology implies belligerence. Technology is a war we wage against nature; technology is a means of asserting ourselves and usurping nature’s rule, which is necessarily a violent act.
Imagine we come to learn that we’re the absolute biggest assholes in all of the universe, and that’s why all the alien homies avoid us.
I’d expect advanced alien civilisations to be further along at evolving beyond their atavistic impulses. We have a long way to go there.
Technology implies belligerence.
Technology is a war we wage against nature; technology is a means of asserting ourselves and usurping nature’s rule, which is necessarily a violent act.