Sunday, April 11, 2010

Week 8:The Alien as Other

In faced with the prospect of interacting with extra-terrestrial beings, we have to hope that any other race we were to come in contact with would be benign. The possibility of that race being aggressive, or looking to destroy us is frightening. Especially the possibility that such a destructive being may already be on our planet just waiting to be discovered and then able to carry out their plans. It is our hope that we would successfully come out of such an interaction having defeated the aggressors, and restored our dominance of our planet. Of course such a victory would likely come at the cost of human lives.

"It won't be a loss if we continue to live, and come out of this"(Campbell, Jr. 106)

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