We're pretty likely to discover soon just how hard life is on a mildly "alien" Earth, never mind a completely alien world
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I liked Douglas Adams' metaphor. Imagine a talking thinking puddle of water. "Hey, this hole in the ground is shaped JUST LIKE ME!"
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"The ground must have been MADE for me! I am precious and special!" As the sun comes out "This is temporary, a test of my will to survive"
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As the puddle is more than half dried out "I don't understand! I have existed here as long as I can remember! I am part of the universe"
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I like The Matrix as a metaphor at a very practical level too - we've already made it impossible to survive w the "old ways" but hidden it
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Our media, our advertising, we try to pretend this imaginary world of cute little farms and traditional artisans exists
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The reality is we cannot survive anymore without a massive infrastructure of intensive industrial agriculture
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The Earth was starving to death and the "miracle" of the Green Revolution was to keep us going with a concentrated IV of synthetic chemicals
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The next shot in the arm will be mass adoption of GMOs to survive the next big climate shift
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The Machines that we're repulsed by and see as our jailers are really the ICU keeping us alive
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And we're going to incredible effort to keep our citizens from noticing each sea change as it occurs
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