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I have an older friend who is really into aliens. It's like, their thing. And they are completely 100% convinced that once the truth about aliens comes out it's
GOING
TO
CHANGE
EVERTHING
and my other friends and I try to tell them like "oh yeah, well you're still gonna go to work the next day, I'm still gonna have to pay rent, and I'm still gonna want my coffee. 'Knowing' about aliens doesn't really change any of that."
Like others have said, people will learn about things and find a way to square it with their life as already lived. And like you said, it's absolute idealism. But this friend is convicned that we need no politics, no revolution, no change, just aliens, and that'll do.
It'll be this tbh
This gave me a laugh, thanks
Unless they pull a Childhood's End and
spoiler
pull a human instrumentality project on us.That'd make a change
yummy fanter
I wouldn't mind the tang
Okay I’ve been trying for like a year now to find a book (might’ve been a short story) that also has devil-like aliens that have “invaded” earth but I think they’re a bit harsher than the ones in Childhoods End (possibly using us for livestock, but can’t remember for sure). I wanna say it was a black author but I have searched the internet high and low for it with no luck. Lmk if anyone has any ideas.
I don't think that narrows it down quite enough. Cause the Octavia Butler books immediately come to mind with that description but I don't think that is exactly it.
Hmm not sure
I'm searching online, but I don't think I'll have more luck than you have.