why are they always the bad guys? and they seem to be skinny, have only 3 long pointy fingers, yet they can build these giant spaceships
dont we understimate/undermind ourselves...
2006-09-06 11:40:31 · 8 answers · asked by resiste_lfc 3 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
we have five fingers and after landing on the moon (if we ever did) nothing has happened at all.... maybe we have too many... get the saw.
2006-09-06 11:46:04 · update #1
I think the thought process behind our views on aliens is that any civilisation capable of travelling between the stars must be very advanced and therefore peaceful- which in some ways goes against the grain, as war has spurred some of our greatest technological advances.
Basically. I think we would rather believe that aliens are peaceful than warlike, because a race powerful enough to build ships to travel the stars would stomp us into the ground if they wanted to.
As to their appearance- well, the first reports of alien encounters involved 'Greys' with big eyes, large heads- you know the ones- and that's the image the media and Hollywood have run with.
2006-09-06 11:53:27 · answer #1 · answered by darth_timon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ute Bublitz (1998)
Beyond Philosophy
Reconciliation and Rejection
Three Essays on Aristotle and Hegel
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Source: Beyond Philosophy, Reconciliation and Rejection, Three Essays on Aristotle and Hegel, by Ute Bublitz, published by Universal Texts 1998, ISBN 0 9533099 0 8. First part of Preface, and the latter part of the Introduction reproduced here.
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Preface
This book is about philosophy, without, however, being a philosophy book. I did not even wish to continue the line of traditional philosophy. Indeed, I am convinced that it is impossible for anyone to do so today.
The meaning of philosophy is deeply linked to reconciliation. And reconciliation to the world as it is today is no longer possible. Living unreconciled opens the way for rejection. Yet, rejection can never carry out what it implicitly requests: a thorough transformation of life. Without the element of the general, rejection is doomed to certain failure. Only philosophy has been able to develop that generality. On the other hand, mere philosophical knowledge of how to grasp the whole, dies the moment it is faced with a world to which reconciliation is impossible. Today, then, we can neither reject the way we live, nor reconcile ourselves to it. In this book, I confront the two so that they mutually illuminate each other with the hope that, in their combined light we can see our path into the future. ...
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/bublitz.htm
2006-09-06 14:54:31 · answer #2 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We envision aliens as smarter and better than we are because it's too hard to imagine any beings who are dumber and worse than human beings.
2006-09-06 21:04:05 · answer #3 · answered by Goethe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well to begin with if these aliens found us and came to earth they would have to be intelligent besides any other sort is boring as humans we like to imagine things a bit more interesting that bacteria
2006-09-06 11:46:42 · answer #4 · answered by welsh lizard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why else would they come to Earth? They've used up their planets resources and now they want ours. We will do the same when the time comes.
2006-09-06 11:45:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well maybe because they have those giant probes that they stick in your asss for test and shiit! lol were not afraid of them, we're just homophobic lol
2006-09-06 11:47:50 · answer #6 · answered by mishekk_01 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hollyweird creates this image and perpetuates it.
The minions just go along with it.
2006-09-06 11:42:24 · answer #7 · answered by Yes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dunno.i allways theme short fat and the sweetest lil people ,ever
2006-09-06 11:43:52 · answer #8 · answered by Beka. 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋