If aliens were to arrive, they would probably ask our university professors why the economic system has a single point of failure. And then after a while they

If aliens were to arrive, they would probably ask our university professors why the economic system has a single point of failure. And then after a while they would ask us why we are driving around in motor vehicles powered by a non-renewable resource. And then after some more reflection they would ask us why we get our news and form our opinion of consensus reality based on a tiny number of sources, all of which generally agree with one another and which also happen to generally agree with the single point of failure in the first question. And then we would hear a strange noise: alien laughter.