like, the idea that aliens are going to be (a) intelligent (b) more advanced than us and (c) FIT INTO OUR NOTIONS OF HISTORICAL PROGRESSION IN SOME SORT OF STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY
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I mean, I am ready to praise our Oankali overlords, but...
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"aliens absolutely exist" okay that's kind of goofy but if you want... "aliens will be the apotheosis of Communism!" [backs away slowly]
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anyway. I think it's fine that he's a kook, but his efforts to integrate his politics with his kookdom starts moving out of "cute" and into "irritating."
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materialist politics don't require you to take it on faith that aliens will show up on a 10,000 year timetable, imo.
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Ok but I would read the essay
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Man wanting the aliens to come to prove capitalism bad is one of the more kooky things ive seen on this site. There are like 1,000,000 different variables here.
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I gotta admit, he's pushing the absolute limits of class reductionism. This man is a pioneer, a visionary.
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