SWNOVELS Chapter What We Humans Want
What We Humans Want.
If you poll any meaningful sample group of people, and ask them what they might want from engaging with actual ET aliens of a truly advanced intelligent species from some relatively similar planetary system located elsewhere in the Universe – they will predominantly say that we humans desire a few particular things to be solved for us: significant improvements to our material well-being, the ending of our inherent tendencies to war and conflict, elimination of disease and ill-health, virtual utopian social and relationship advances from where we are right now.
The non-canonical ‘Book of Enoch,’ though, appears to be a narrative, arguably where ‘people from the skies/heavens’ already had one go at this at some time in our distant past(!), or at these kinds of things. Their solution appeared to have been - giving cosmetics and cosmetic ideas to women, pharmaceutical and medicine knowledge to people, and poisons and weaponry and weapons technology of a certain level to the leaders of favoured early ‘city-states.’
One seeming ‘difference’ between this old account and what modern people seem to want, is that perhaps in the ancient past people wanted the means of ‘victory’ in wars and battles over others, whereas now, it seems more to be the case that people don’t want to have to make war at all.
Yet even so, this flies in the face of the narrative fact within these mainstream Judaic-Christian accounts, that neither major identities such as Abraham or Jacob or Joseph ever actually sought to make wars, and in so many instances shied away from conflict and openly opposing their enemies – and notably, there are numerous key identities in this whole religious lineage whose continued assertion on many occasions that they are ‘the children of Rachel,’ literally is a key phrasing that implies that they prefer to keep silent and not go to battle against an enemy, because that was the style of behaviour of the Biblical figure of Rachel in those kinds of situations.
But, ‘looking outside of ourselves’ is not an amorphous uniform goal of all humans on the planet: there is one particular strata (and this is the one we have related to the Karl Popper-espoused ideology), which can be represented by public speakers such as Professor Yuval Harari.
People in this group, espouse a view that says that religions that have been around for a long time, have outlived their effective beneficial purpose in any evolutionary sense of progress, and that the main objective of modern man should be the elimination of suffering.
And this, they say, can certainly be achieved without the necessity of resorting to any supernatural means whatsoever. Once again, they make it seem not only laudable but perfectly well-validated that indeed, even if we were to merely take such ‘advancements’ (were they to be offered) from say, some extraterrestrial super-advanced species of intelligent beings, then we would not really ‘own’ our own advancements...
It sounds reasonable, it sounds morally ‘right.’
But because it is a very complicated concept, really, most people cannot see past the speciousness of it. For who, actually, is intended to be the ‘we’ in the first place? What they means is ‘they’ are going to be the ‘we,’ and you, are going to do as you are told.