Alien Civilizations

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.