What if Earth is like one of those uncontacted tribes in South America, like the whole Galaxy knows we're here but they've agreed not to contact us until we figure it out for ourselves?

frankyboi@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago

What if Earth is like one of those uncontacted tribes in South America, like the whole Galaxy knows we're here but they've agreed not to contact us until we figure it out for ourselves?

passthepotato · 2 years ago

I’m not even sure they would be moved to “sheer horror”.

If I saw a video of a monkey, flinging poo at another monkey, instead of using it to fertilise their banana trees, I would just chuckle and eat another biscuit. I would then move on to the next video, or seek out yet more biscuits.

I feel as though this is the relative scale of empathy we evoke as a species at this point 🤣