06-04-2021, 10:58 AM
(06-03-2021, 10:41 PM)samhain Wrote: I'm unsure of how I should take the news of the Pentagon breifing. I'm not holding my breath when it comes to hearing anything definitive or world-changing, but the whole thing seems like something that would have been unimaginable even 5 or 10 years ago. IDK if it's just the crazy pandemic year coupled with large-scale political division everywhere that make it a less-massive story or if people just aren't paying any attention to anything other than themselves. I definitely feel that if something like this happened in the 80's or 90's, people would be packed around the TV waiting to see what information would be let out.
Hell, I remember Halley's Comet being a really big deal when I was in the first grade. I remember people going on about Al Capone's vault. People seem pretty nonchalantt about this whole thing. I suppose that beats hysterics and panic.
If this amounts to anything, the toughest thing for humanity to digest will be the idea that we are no longer the top predator on the food chain. That's a crude way to phrase it, but if there's any acknowledgement whatsoever that the craft being seen are truly extraterrestrial, then we'll need to get acquainted with the idea that we are no longer the supreme life form in the universe. That may be a concept that could be inferred before anything is revealed just due to the vastness of the universe, but to see it laid out as reality is a different deal. I think it will weigh on people as individuals more than we might expect.
Humans are only the top predator on land. As soon as you set foot in the ocean, you are no longer at the top of the food chain.
