To Think Like an Alien, You Must Be an Alien
As long as I’ve been an investigator I’ve been asked “certain questions” like, “If we are being visited by extraterrestrials, then why don’t they just land on the White House lawn, or at some major televised event and make themselves known to us? Because that’s what I would do.” Well it really doesn’t work that way and it doesn’t matter what you may do or what people think aliens should or shouldn’t do. For some reason humans seem to think they have an answer for everything, including alien reasoning. This can’t be further from the truth. Why is this? Could it be part of our ignorance or part of our culture? Maybe both. Either way it’s a big wake up call for certain people when they just don’t know. It’s not because they’re not intelligent, it’s because they just don’t understand how a different intelligence could think and react, so this tends to scare them. Humans tend to fear what they can’t comprehend, so they have to find some type of reasoning to satisfy their lack of understanding. Previously I specified “different intelligence” and not “higher intelligence” so I’ll take a quick detour and explain why. Just because an alien can travel from a distant star, or maybe defy the physics we currently understand, it doesn’t necessarily mean they could be a higher intelligence. They could actually be within the same ball park where our intelligence resides.
What if our civilization focused all its attention on technology for travel? Where would we be now? Our species has wasted and is wasting so much time and effort learning how to combat each other or trying to be the supreme being of all power on this planet that we really haven’t learned to fully work together. So many previous technologies have been lost because of this, and the lack of “full” human cooperation and intervention has definitely slowed our technology train. Don’t agree? Consider Galileo for one.
Around 1610 Galileo started publicly supporting his theory which stated the Sun was at the center of our solar system. He was faced with undesirable opposition from other philosophers and religious clerics. Eventually in early 1615 he was confronted by the Roman Inquisition. In February of 1616 he was cleared of any offense, but the Catholic Church still condemned his theories as false and contrary to their Scripture, so he was warned to abandon his new direction. After his 1632 publication “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems” he was tried by the Inquisition, found “vehemently suspect of heresy,” forced to recant his theory and for the rest of his remaining life he lived under house arrest. All they had to do was listen to the Mayans but that’s another blog of a different story.
So, regardless of your religious beliefs or how you feel about your favorite philosopher, what if Galileo was actually embraced with his new theories? What if everyone just stopped to take the time to listen and at least explore the possibility rather than try to kill it or the man who was “philoso-phyzing” it? (ie. Bill and Ted)
So back to UFOlogy. Let’s say an alien race came from a planet where they never experienced that type of conflict. What if this race of aliens evolved with the motivation for travel, to experience new environments, and meet new life forms (Wow sounds like Star Trek). Could they be that much more intelligent than us? If we were involved with a different directional thinking of technology back in the early, let’s say, 1300’s where would we be now? Would we have seen an earlier version of Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, or Sir Isaac Newton? Anthropologists have said numerous times that humans 1000’s of years ago still had the mental capacity of modern day humans. The only thing missing was modern day education. But our personal evolutionary process has pointed us not only physically in a particular direction but mentally in a particular direction too! We’ve been so obsessed with our own adversaries on this planet, learning their every move, studying they’re every thought, that we think we can do the same with an unknown species visiting our planet. We’re still a lot closer to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 ape race than the enlightened space travelers they become. For now, the only way to really understand what an alien is thinking is to ask them, or kidnap them. Actually some researchers say these events have actually happened, but for the sake of not writing a blog the size of “War and Peace,” I’ll just sway from that area (this time).
Again the “Bottom Line” is, it’s very difficult for us to answer unknown questions about an unknown species not indigenous to our planet. For instance:
Why cattle mutilations? What the hell?
Why abductions? Again…What the hell?
Why crop circles? Ok, pretty cool.
Why are you visiting our planet?
How long have you been visiting our planet?
Are you responsible for our technology advancement?
Are you from a distant star or from our future?
What mode of transportation do you use?
Are you responsible for our species’ evolution?
So many questions and yes, so many answers. There are literally thousands of books and papers written about these previous questions. I’m not saying they’re right or they’re wrong, I’m saying, “Do we really know how an alien thinks?” Hell, I’m usually wrong when I try to second guess my own wife… (Hi Hun) NotthatI’msayingmywifeisanalien…but if we can’t even fully understand other cultures or opposites on this planet, then why in the hell do we think we can second guess other species visiting our planet? Am I the only one seeing this?
So if you ever meet a person who says they know “exactly” how an alien thinks and they know exactly why aliens are visiting our planet doing what they’re doing, just remember this.
To “Think” like an Alien, You Must “Be” an Alien…
So what about that person you may meet? Your guess is as good as mine. One guess is to run away, real fast, without looking back, yelling obscenities in different languages, wearing a pirate costume. Arrrgh!
I’d like to read your guess. So post your comments or thoughts. Remember your guess could be just as good as my guess. But then again, your guess could be the correct one.
Especially if you’re an alien .……………….(gratuitous Dr. Evil laugh)
Category: The Z-Files
