The idea that if we ever meet the aliens they'll be just like us but with bigger guns and faster computers That there will be any such thing as a "Galactic Federation" with governments and companies that sell shit and a currency and whatnot That IS "neoliberal end-of-history"
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And that's frankly what most people imagine when they think about meeting the aliens And frankly I don't think fantasies about meeting the aliens only to find out they're democratic socialists like on Star Trek and teach us better politics is all that different
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A genuine critique of the "end of history" is one that argues *something else* will happen after this status quo we have now Not necessarily a good one or one that we'll like, just something different All of us being vaporized in a nuclear war is one of those different things
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So is the idea that maybe something comes after us that goes out and spreads across the stars or something but actually is *alien* and completely different from us *Not* something that looks like our world but nicer with a robust welfare state
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It's just so headass for someone who's all pro-aliens who thinks that aliens would be our benevolent role models to think they're the broad-minded, open-minded ones To think that an "alien civilization" would have "people" in it at all
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Jesus Christ that has to be one of the worst tweets I've ever seen.
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