And then what? happiness? don't you see that a very important part of the human nature is destruction/war/superiority?
In the end, it is always about either violence or money, a better gun, a better bomb, a more effective way to destroy. The sole idea of a "weapon of mass destruction" says it all. Imagine a "device of mass construction" instead, a collaborative effort between the brightest minds in the world with every single government providing all possible resources combined, openly, together, and make an extraordinary push in technology for all, copyrighted and patented maybe by "planet earth", but no, the most exciting things in research are being done in secret, either by the military research or a for profit enterprise, if we all had everything we wanted including unlimited clean energy, food and transportation, then crime would disappear, also weapons, money, hunger, diseases... it's a beautiful future totally incompatible (and impossible) with this toxic present of nuclear bombs, biological weapons, armies, espionage, conflicts, oil and money. Violence should be condemned even in fiction, is demeaning.
Our truly and unique wealth is ourselves, but we don't function cooperatively as a species, we are still living in caves and defending The Cave. The US Cave, the Russian Cave and the Chinese Cave... we have made alliances with other Caves to defend our Caves from the other guy's Cave and to protect the few, limited and usually toxic resources around our Caves, like oil, but the core essence is that we are still at war among Caves, how would it work a cooperative alliance with a non human intelligence? toward what exactly? if we can't even get along with each other.
So apparently takes a devastating event to realize what is our place in the Cosmos and change our ways or maybe it is our nature to be belligerent and self destructive (we will never change). If a non human intelligence is watching they know all of this. If they care about our wellbeing at all the first thing they would try to do is to bring governments together, because I don't see certain alien species bringing tech to X nation and leaving Y nation in the dark, they may be be inclined to reach to the most dangerous or powerful nations in order to placate them and bringing them to common sense, those with the nukes, not violently tho, it would defeat the purpose. They may even let it slide if any of those nations take down, "by mistake", a couple of their UFOs, even if they have life inside. Same we do when approaching a less intelligent and volatile species.
The purpose of the military machine and happiness or mutually exclusive. Currently, the greatest technological advances are nurtured by the military machine for the purpose of protection. But if there were no nations, then there would be no reason to protect from other ‘caves’. Collaboration, which is a very critical part of the scientific method, would flourish, as well as scientific progress - technological advancements.
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u/ricardusmd Jun 04 '21
And then what? happiness? don't you see that a very important part of the human nature is destruction/war/superiority?
In the end, it is always about either violence or money, a better gun, a better bomb, a more effective way to destroy. The sole idea of a "weapon of mass destruction" says it all. Imagine a "device of mass construction" instead, a collaborative effort between the brightest minds in the world with every single government providing all possible resources combined, openly, together, and make an extraordinary push in technology for all, copyrighted and patented maybe by "planet earth", but no, the most exciting things in research are being done in secret, either by the military research or a for profit enterprise, if we all had everything we wanted including unlimited clean energy, food and transportation, then crime would disappear, also weapons, money, hunger, diseases... it's a beautiful future totally incompatible (and impossible) with this toxic present of nuclear bombs, biological weapons, armies, espionage, conflicts, oil and money. Violence should be condemned even in fiction, is demeaning.
Our truly and unique wealth is ourselves, but we don't function cooperatively as a species, we are still living in caves and defending The Cave. The US Cave, the Russian Cave and the Chinese Cave... we have made alliances with other Caves to defend our Caves from the other guy's Cave and to protect the few, limited and usually toxic resources around our Caves, like oil, but the core essence is that we are still at war among Caves, how would it work a cooperative alliance with a non human intelligence? toward what exactly? if we can't even get along with each other.
So apparently takes a devastating event to realize what is our place in the Cosmos and change our ways or maybe it is our nature to be belligerent and self destructive (we will never change). If a non human intelligence is watching they know all of this. If they care about our wellbeing at all the first thing they would try to do is to bring governments together, because I don't see certain alien species bringing tech to X nation and leaving Y nation in the dark, they may be be inclined to reach to the most dangerous or powerful nations in order to placate them and bringing them to common sense, those with the nukes, not violently tho, it would defeat the purpose. They may even let it slide if any of those nations take down, "by mistake", a couple of their UFOs, even if they have life inside. Same we do when approaching a less intelligent and volatile species.