Aliens: "We don't understand why 8.2 billion humans are just standing by while a tiny (tiny!!) fraction of narcissistic, flagrantly benighted terrestrial fucknuggets ruin the planet and risk the future of the species.

[richard_littler@mastodon.social]

Aliens: "We don't understand why 8.2 billion humans are just standing by while a tiny (tiny!!) fraction of narcissistic, flagrantly benighted terrestrial fucknuggets ruin the planet and risk the future of the species. It makes no sense."

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@Richard_Littler humans: we don't understand it, either

[didgebaba@c.im]

@Richard_Littler I would argue that it's more about a system of value than what individual people do or have accumulated. In turn it is a system that directs all that we do and how society is organised. Perhaps the most obvious measure of value in this system is money. But there are other measures of value. To borrow from Pierre Bourdieu, these measures include social, cultural and symbolic capital. All these forms of value drive the hierarchical division of humanity and unequal distribution of resources and wealth. Aliens are more likely to see us as prisoners of our own childish desires and irrational fears, than as simply slaves to a privilege class. The wealth isn't so much the issue as the ridiculous and cruel system that produces it (along with hunger, homelessness, war, militarism, nationalism, poverty, wage slavery, colonialism, child labor, mass consumption, resource exploration, environmental destruction, global warming, hoarding, super yachts, gated communities....... and so on).

[tripleman@mastodon.social]

@Richard_Littler Our big brains are pretty buggy.