Sure, they may have created unimaginable new frontiers for humanity but they're *low status*, and that means they're unimportant and boring, really.
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Probably not an original metaphor but now I am thinking of every monster movie ever where the Powers That Be are so unable to process Outside Context Problems that they are still denying the monster exists as it is literally eating them.
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Extra bonus points for Independence Day, where the Powers That Were were allegedly an Air Force veteran but were so pantswettingly terrified of of nuclear weapons they agonized over whether using a tiny fission device was justified in the face of alien annihilation.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.