MendotoManteo
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Was Star Trek a "socialist" society?
Not trying to be weird, but I think that's the only way a society like ours could possibly get off this planet.
Any other society would just consume itself. Elon ain't getting us off this planet, other than maybe himself and a few others. And they'll just die in due time without a real support base back here or elsewhere.
Perhaps this post belongs in the alien/UFO thread, but this is why I scoff at films like Independence Day, as fun as they are.
There is certainly intelligent life in the universe. How could there not be? Arrogance is stating otherwise.
As far as I'm concerned, however, only a society resembling something like socialism would be able to reach deep space and make contact.
Aliens, by their nature, would have to be benevolent if they initiated contact. (There's no way our civilization could ever make contact, because, at least as we're currently constituted, we're too stupid and self-interested.) And I know Mars Attacks (great film; no ideo why it never comes on) mocks that assumption, but I think it true. A civilization capable of contact would have to be so far advanced and "above it all" that we probably couldn't even process it. Something like 2001: A Space Odyssey with the trip to Jupiter. Star child. Evolution.
We'll not see anything like that in our own time. But it makes you wonder about the future. I guess someone eventually somewhere will see whether or not it works.
Sorry, forgive me my thoughts. My mind wonders.
Not trying to be weird, but I think that's the only way a society like ours could possibly get off this planet.
Any other society would just consume itself. Elon ain't getting us off this planet, other than maybe himself and a few others. And they'll just die in due time without a real support base back here or elsewhere.
Perhaps this post belongs in the alien/UFO thread, but this is why I scoff at films like Independence Day, as fun as they are.
There is certainly intelligent life in the universe. How could there not be? Arrogance is stating otherwise.
As far as I'm concerned, however, only a society resembling something like socialism would be able to reach deep space and make contact.
Aliens, by their nature, would have to be benevolent if they initiated contact. (There's no way our civilization could ever make contact, because, at least as we're currently constituted, we're too stupid and self-interested.) And I know Mars Attacks (great film; no ideo why it never comes on) mocks that assumption, but I think it true. A civilization capable of contact would have to be so far advanced and "above it all" that we probably couldn't even process it. Something like 2001: A Space Odyssey with the trip to Jupiter. Star child. Evolution.
We'll not see anything like that in our own time. But it makes you wonder about the future. I guess someone eventually somewhere will see whether or not it works.
Sorry, forgive me my thoughts. My mind wonders.
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