26-04-2010, 08:45 PM
While we like to see ourselves as 'evolved' and 'intelligent', most alien societies have had to survive and surpass the kinds of horrors [selfishness, war, oligarchy, greed, hate, environmental lack-of-awareness, et al.] we now face. They would look at us like evil cockroaches, most likely and might bring their intergalactic cans of 'Raid' spray. I took a course by Sagan and Shlosky in Intelligent Life in the Universe, and the most amazing two facts I came out of that course with were: 1] there are over one million intelligent civilizations in the 'visible/known' universe [getting larger all the time] and 2] the average age of an intelligent race that didn't self-destruct [like ours seems to be on course to!] was well over a million years PAST technology. We are barely 2.000 years beyond the beginnings of technology; 200 years from real technology. To them, we are dangerous, low-life, UN-evolved, un-proven and likely now un-democratic and civil [in the Galactic sense]!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass