Why aliens haven’t contacted us
I suggest a different, even darker solution to Fermi’s Paradox. Basically, I think the aliens don’t blow themselves up; they just get addicted to computer games. They forget to send radio signals or colonize space because they’re too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality narcissism. They don’t need Sentinels to enslave them in a Matrix; they do it to themselves, just as we are doing today.
The World Question Center 2006 via Ze Frank
This is just a snippet of a great piece of writing that I suggest you all go read right now. It’s short, I promise. It kind of makes you wonder what we’re doing to the human race when the virtual economy outweighs the physical economy. Scary, thought-provoking and encouraging in a “we can catch this before it’s too late” kind of way.
- September 16th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
- Category: Technology, Thoughts
how can you be so sure they haven’t contacted us?
Comment by sally whitfield — September 16, 2009 @ 4:22 pm