Some people say Earth is
visited
by aliens who choose to remain in secret. If
it’s true, what could they want? Certainly, they must be so
technologically superior to us that they can’t possibly
need anything technological from us. If they need resources (some
say they’re after gold or water), wouldn’t they just
take those resources? It’s not as if we could resist them,
so why do they hide?
I have a hypothesis.
There is something we have that they don’t have that
would require their remaining hidden in order to get. That thing
is our culture. They’re observing our art, our music, our
mistakes, our wars, and our silly little sciences struggling to
understand the universe. They enjoy watching us in our wild,
undisturbed, primitive state. They see our highest technology and
think, “Isn’t that cute. Look what they think they
invented.” They take deep breaths of our pollution and it
makes them feel rustic and quaint.
Were they to reveal themselves
to us, they would infect our culture with their culture,
and we would no longer be wild. We would no longer be natural.
Everything alien would become the latest fad. Our music would
start to sound more like theirs. Our TV would tell alien gossip.
Our schools would teach their math and languages. The more we
became like them, the less entertaining we would be for them.
That is why they hide. Earth is a wildlife preserve for aliens.
They come here to get back to nature, as we go to the park to
watch the squirrels.
Aliens
Squirrels
quote and format by Raxin