Thursday, September 17, 2020
The ET “Problem”
Copyright 2020, InterAmerica, Inc.
Serious thought about extraterrestrial species has to acknowledge that intelligent races, in their primitive state or advanced state, can, in no way, equal or even approximate, what human culture and species have been and are.
It’s an “evolutionary” impossibility.
The September 24, 2020 New York Review of Books provides reviews of two books about books [Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe by Anthony Grafton, Harvard and When Novels Were Books by Jordan Alexander Stein, also Harvard], Leah Price the reviewer, Page 65 ff.
The elaborate and unique process that produced books and reading for humans in Western civilization adds to the processes and progress in all aspects of culture and activity of human beings from time immemorial to today.The processes are “evolutionary” in the mode of Darwin’s theory of the development of human beings themselves; that is, Darwin’s theory provides a template for how all elements of humanity’s culture progressed, by bit and pieces of often seemingly inconsequential bits of activity or change, each tied prominently to the ingredients of this Earth or the activities of living species here.
These are of a kind – an Earth kind and only an Earth kind.No other planet or “living space” in the Universe will have duplicate ingredients that are intrinsic to our planet, or how those ingredients interacted within the environment of our planet.
The idea that a planet or species elsewhere in the cosmos would evolve as humans have and how human inventions, discoveries, cultural activity, speech, writing, thinking, or anything else has is ludicrous.
ET’s cannot be anything like humans nor have aircraft, cultural artifacts, or bodies like that of humans. It’s a virtual impossibility.
That UFOers keep trying to tie UFOs and supposed entities within to beings like us is foolishness of a mad kind, an insanity of thought that is troubling.
The Ancient Astronaut ideas of building edifices or warfare in the skies are examples of mad thought that is too laughable to remain popular. Why it does is, again, troubling.
That serious men and women think UFOs are advanced craft from outer space is, too, a madness of mind: troubling, psychologically.
And a species building AI robots to circle the Milky Way and/or Universe itself is a projection of sci-fi imagination that is not graspable with the confines of mental normalcy.
The idea of UFOs with an ET input has to be shelved if one wants to be noticed among the really sentient persons on Earth.
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