Ongoing question
I have often wondered if disappointment in ourselves, especially in how we treat each other, the earth, and other species inhabitants of this sphere we occupy, fuels our interest in extraterrestrial life and visitations associated with it.
How many flee to their telescopes to view the night sky or ponder over an ancient undecipherable archeological find to escape unabating testimonies of tragedy befalling on and caused by humans?
With the majority, the aliens: They are here. They are coming. And true to human form: They are dangerous.
Even asking questions about aliens and collusion by their concealment-obsessed governments have a way of revealing our deep-seated urge to view ourselves outside the realm of the ordinary. Even FOX during the first Republican Primary debate had a "UFO" question, delivered almost apologetically as if some wealthy CEO wanted to be assured whatever political contribution made may go for something other than some perfidious TV commercial.
Asking if aliens exist may very well be the most enduring question humans and our primate ancestors asked from the time one could look up at the sky. Homage in stone carvings, drawings on cave walls, and large-scale designs on the earth indicate the want to explain what yet can be explained or completely understood.
Though my questions are more evolutionary concerning the development of humans, and more dimensional in terms of spiritual oneness, I can believe other life forms know more than our current semi-primitive embodiment.
How that is answered is unbeknownst to me.
(This is a long piece. Only the truly interested may want to give it the time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/magazine/avi-loeb-alien-hunter.htm
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