About the aliens visiting the earth....Yes, they have been here, but..........

[Newest Reality]

20. That's a good point.

I am glad you brought that up.

Of course you don't see any reason for that. We are bound by our biases, cultures, conditioning and even the scope and context of the language we use. I think it is very difficult, in that case, to imagine what any kind of "advanced" level of thought, thinking, being or communication might actually be. I don't think a dog or porpoise would get Rush Limbaugh at all.

We have a system that is rather circular and self-replicating. There are junctures where a certain kind of emergence occurs and they seem to be universally and implicitly evolutionary in some way. Generally, new innovations or ways of thinking are rather slow and sporadic, but there are periods of leaps and bounds and we have and are experiencing one, IMHO.

My speculation is that there is something essential about reality that we are currently missing in our materialistic, capitalistic, nihilistic hedonism at this stage. That is that things are far more interdependent than we generally are aware of and we do not pay due heed to it. There have been ancient views that gave more respect and credence to a more expansive and all-inclusive framework for existence. When a culture recognizes the intrinsic, essential and vital fact that everything is mutually interdependent, (which is really rather inconvenient considering our lifestyles, consumerism, and a list of other reasons) that can shift the paradigm significantly and then the "hard problem" of consciousness itself becomes more relevant as well.

Those things considered, while we collectively experience the results of the ignorance of the above, (pollution, climate change, extinction) we can also see how our current ignorance could cause us to project a rather negative light on advanced species and cast them as ambivalent, apathetic or even malevolent when they could very well be far more compassionate, attuned, connected and aware than we can even imagine from our rather limited and tightly focused point-of-view.

To me the Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.