aliens are going to blow up earth the second we discover ftl communication to prevent our copious infohazards from destroying galactic culture
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actually human beings “unique race trait” being that we are a festering cesspool of literally dangerous ideas is cool as fuck someone write this scifi
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William S. Burroughs wrote "language is a virus from outer space" in The Ticket That Exploded and it's a concept central to his work. Though I suppose that's the opposite of what you're talking about.
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language being a virus from outer space supports the idea of aliens needing to protect themselves from it rather than it just being meaningless to them
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True. Actually, when you frame it like that, the idea that we're such a writhing mass of madness that we've been quarantined on the galactic stage is pretty compelling.
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thinking we're special makes for more saleable novels
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I just like the idea of turning Lovecraft on his head and saying that the universe is basically benevolent but we're so unpleasant that all our gods try to eat us
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brb starting up my writing career under the pen name I.Q. Hateart
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