Quote Originally Posted by Divinus Arma View Post


I can't help but think someone else might be thinking along the same lines as I am:


What would we want if Aliens could magically appear and cure almost all of our diseases, double or triple our life spans, and introduce us to technologies beyond our wildest imaginations?

What if that meant introducing us to a universal civilization and strange foreign new existential perspectives, thus shattering our current world view as "superior beings in God's image": the invalidation of Jesus Christ, Mohammed, et al. ?


Would you scream in fear and fight change, or would you adapt and welcome our new leaders?


I would probably want things to go slowly at first. Let people get used to the change over time ya know? Drastic change over a short period is rarely good for a number of reasons and would probably end up in all sorts of social strife. Just look at colonization, revolutions and so on.