This may be painfully obvious, but we do not know what an alien intelligence would find interesting or important. If we evaluate such an intelligence by the most spiritual standards currently available within the human consciousness, then the aliens are doing a terrible job, e.g., they suck as it. What a way to run a planet, we think as we realize that the world is on the edge of catastrophe AS USUAL (this has been the normal state for a very long time).
Part of what I'm trying to get at is to knock whatever it is off it's pedestal. You know, the one we put them on? All powerful? With a covert, unified agenda?
They never make mistakes. They have a goal. They're omniscient, omnipotent, can walk on water and sell ice to Inuit.
I say BS. I say they're at least as complex as we are, if not more. I say they are good at some things and bad at other things.
And I say we
can actually apply critical thinking to tease out what's important to them.
They are either here or they are not here. If they are here, then they came here because they wanted to. If they wanted to, it's because of us or it's not because of us. If it's because of us, then it's because they want something from us. If they want something from us, it's exploitation or it's in our benefit. Etc...
One can apply rational thinking to whatever they are doing.
For one thing, they either don't care about being hidden or they're not great at it. That is a premise that is actually testable, although with difficulty.
Observe one. Show the object it's being observed. Does it immediately 'cloak' or leave? If it doesn't, then it doesn't care about being hidden.
And that tells us something.
In the same vein, many humans believe that a very anthropromorphized God manages planet earth (even creating hurricanes to punish humans for granting equal civil rights to gay Americans, if you listen to Pat Robertson). But even for the most ardent devotee, it often seems as if this God is doing a terrible job, e.g., "Why did god let my puppy die?" About 20 years ago someone (I think it was a Rabbi) made a ton of money publishing a comforting book that answered the question "Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People?" The ultimate response to that question is the old canard "God works in mysterious ways". This lets us off the hook for trying to figure it all out and failing. Do aliens also work in mysterious ways? For some reason, my brain just threw this quote up into my conscious mind:
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
Are Aliens our Modern Wizards? We have created wrathful gods. Have we also created wrathful aliens? Or do aliens play the good cop/bad cop game, with Aryan blonde refugees from Baywatch playing the good aliens while Greys/Reptilians play the bad cops. OK. I've come to the humble conclusion that IF there is a management team involved here, they have far different goals and interests than the average human. Perhaps they value pain and suffering, anger and hate? There is plenty of that around and some conspiracy theorists claim that the big bad aliens eat such emotional feelings. It is often called Loosh. If THAT was true, Donald Trump would be giving such aliens a daily feast! But again, this is a human concept to explain the unexplainable. Perhaps the reality would simply be beyond our capability to understand.
Again, I call BS.
We have a general intelligence in our skull. That is the most powerful that probably exists in the universe.
And besides, as Randall says, all that is hand waiving, anyway.
Then there is that fly in the works known as human free will. Evidently ,the Christian god does not control humanity because of the gift of free will (giving us enough rope to hang ourselves). Do aliens honor free will? Your ordinary garden variety conspiracy theory claims that aliens or demons control the Elite on planet Earth. This implies that the 99% (us peasants who fly commercial) are not directly controlled. Our control is Reaganomic in that it is a trickle down control via the Elite. But do we really have to even posit the idea that our "betters" in government, industry and big business religion need alien help to be psychopaths? I think not. We live on a planet that has a wide variety of intelligence and consciousness (2 different aspects of each person). Scientists have even identified a clinical case for psychopathy that is often cued by a dormant amygdala. No alien intervention is required unless you want to believe that aliens tweak the brain of each budding psychopath in the womb to create the monster of their choice.
I don't buy any of that. There is absolutely no evidence anything but mankind is f'ing up planet Earth. We're doing a pretty kick-ass job of it. We don't need any outside force to ascribe to that, except to alleviate our collective guilt.
Perhaps I get my views from Tom Campbell the YOUTUBE physicist. He came out with the view that our reality is a computer simulation years before it became chic. He has his own relatively unique take on the craziness of our reality from a human standpoint. He believes that our reality, which he likens to a computer game, comes with software the generates random events on the macro and micro level. This is just the way it is set up. No need for aliens unless they programmed the universe (and I care to believe that any creator originates from outside the simulation rather than being an avatar class within it as are aliens). But ultimately, suggesting that the computer simulation within which we exist has random events programmed into it is (to me) pretty much a modern way of still saying that "God works in mysterious ways".
Anyway, food for thought or derision. I am off to ponder how many angels can fit on the head of a Corey Goode groupie.
We're probably not in a simulation. I, myself, loved the theory that QM actually was a low-level compression algorithm running in the simulator that we live in, that 'fudged' subatomic particles. Used statistical modelling rather than modelling physicality. I thought that was really neat.
Turns out it's probably not true, though.
Backreaction: No, we probably don’t live in a computer simulation
