How will alien intelligences regard humankind, when and if we finally meet? It comes down to the criteria they impose.
Let’s hope it’s not kindness. Many of the planet’s formerly great societies, including our own, have taken a turn for the worse, in just the past few years.
In 2010, the democracy in Hungary was regarded as among the very strongest on the planet, certainly the most robust in Central and Eastern Europe. Now, a scant 15 years later, under Viktor Orbán, the country has sunk into dictatorship.
It’s almost certain that the United States isn’t far behind. Project 2025 is an amalgam of the documents of make up the “transition” that Orbán took his country through and the tenets of ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation. At this point, the U.S. and Hungary are on precisely the same course.
We’ve all gotten drunk and said to ourselves, “God, I hope no one sees me like this.” That’s the state of the world right now. Let’s hope that aliens don’t see us like this.
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At left we see the words of the Premier of British Columbia, expressing his sorrow for the incredible pace at which the United States has destroyed its relationships with its allies.
Of course, this is no big deal to Trump supporters, many of whom couldn’t find British Columbia on a map.
It’s easy to blame Trump for his lies and criminality.
It’s harder to accept the fact that many of the people of the United States are willing believe essentially anything, regardless of how preposterous, that comes out of the president’s mouth.
The Republicans seem to have coalesced around the anti-communism/socialism narrative, setting aside all other messaging re: the economy, affordable groceries and gasoline, jobs, allowing Iran to build a nuclear weapon, etc.
We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out.
In a nation that has, to a large degree, lost its ability to think, it’s possible that voters, especially the most unintelligent among them, can be convinced that the Democrats are leading the United States in the direction of China, North Korea, or the former Soviet Union.
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