Alien Civilizations

How will alien intelligences regard humankind, when and if we finally meet?  It comes down to the criteria they impose.

Let’s hope it’s not kindness.  Many of the planet’s formerly great societies, including our own, have taken a turn for the worse, in just the past few years.

In 2010, the democracy in Hungary was regarded as among the very strongest on the planet, certainly the most robust in Central and Eastern Europe.  Now, a scant 15 years later, under Viktor Orbán, the country has sunk into dictatorship.

It’s almost certain that the United States is headed in the same direction.  The document outlining Project 2025 and the course that Orbán took his country through are practically identical.

At some point in our lives, most of us have drunk and said to ourselves, “God, I hope no one sees me like this.”  That’s the state of the world right now.  Let’s hope the aliens don’t see us like this.