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Funny that our ideas of aliens run a similar trajectory to our own technology. Pre-flight, some were convinced that Martians were building canals or Mars, righ
by awb 5y ago
Funny that our ideas of aliens run a similar trajectory to our own technology.
Pre-flight, some were convinced that Martians were building canals or Mars, right as canals were being built to facilitate shipping, the prominent technology of the day.
Now, some are convinced that aliens are sending small crafts and probes to study our planet, right as we’re sending small crafts and probes to study other planets.
And before modern technology, mythological creatures were human-like or animal-like, which was the pinnacle of intelligence in our pre-tech world.
- 35mm 5y agoA drunk guy was stumbling about looking for something under a lamppost. A friendly gentleman asked what the drunk was looking for. “My keys”. The gentleman replied “and did you loose them under this lamppost?” “No, but that’s where the light is”
- johnfn 5y agoThis is such a cool insight - did you come up with it? It's totally worth writing up into a blog post or something.
- 52-6F-62 5y agoIt's pretty much the present background tale to the UFO/UAP scenarios: That every mythology, magical treatise, and religious, occult, or otherwise spiritual experience, UFO experience, etc, are all aspects of reality tuned to the capabilities of our perceptions. The running theory being that they're all the same thing, but rather incorporeal—based on yet-unknown physical principles involving consciousness or the larger reality we reside in and either manifesting from our own consciousness or another consciousness outside of material reality. Of course, such a theory—while fantastical and exciting—is a pretty clever catch-all. Catch up on any modern UFO reading and that's where it all points. And probably fairly, given the kinds of endeavours various defence agencies and their investigations. I think it also follows Jacques Vallée's theories, but I haven't actually read any of his books or papers. I'm intrigued, but not enough to wade too deeply. There are blog posts and online-forum-wiz expoundings galore.
- yann2 5y agoDude are you saying what comes out of the mind, of say a H. R. Giger, and the rest of the chimp troupe have overlap because they share the same hardware?
- 52-6F-62 5y agoNo idea what you're saying. Who is "the chimp troupe"?
- soylentcola 5y agoOr perhaps it's just in our nature to see agency in the unknown. The form it takes just reflects our cultural expectations and world view du jour.
- 52-6F-62 5y agoI don't know any better than you. I'm just reporting that OP's notions are already the core thread of some UFOlogists of the past ~40-50 years (and beyond). The idea that it is all essentially a projection/emanations from a singular core consciousness (a la gnosticism or neoplatonism) is not unexplored, nor contradictory to your own statement. That's why it's clever; as a theory it can virtually explain anything. It just requires a level of faith on par with any other belief system.
- awb 5y agoI’m sure I picked it up somewhere before in various forms, I just can’t remember where. But I can’t claim credit for it.
- MadcapJake 5y agoThere is an analogous line of thinking for ghosts https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/10/enlightenment-era-ghosts-and-history-of.html?m=1 https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/10/enlightenment-era-gh...
- nradov 5y agoWe also see many cultures have something like a "trickster god" in their pantheon. For example Loki in Norse mythology or Coyote in some Native American traditions. Perhaps the purported alien visitors are just modernized versions of that archetype.
- earthboundkid 5y agoOr maybe the premoderns were correct that there are trickster gods, and we have been tricked (!) into believing in aliens instead.