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The level of technology required for interstellar travel is so beyond ours that we are completely at the mercy of their whims. Their presence, and their complete dominance of the governments of the world, leads to major social upheaval, and human cultures probably undergoes a fundamental shift and may be unrecognizable from what it was in a matter of years. If they give us free energy, capitalism as a system will be under an existential threat, and capital's response could be quite aggressive. First contact will be the end of humanity as we know it if it is peaceful, and the obliteration of humanity if it is not.
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DrSunshine posted:In the coming weeks, there would be an enormous, global discussion about the ramifications of this, how to respond, etc. Many of the current preoccupations of humanity might cease or be put on a backburner as the human race attempts to reconcile with the existence of these alien visitors. There would be a huge resurgence in religiosity, extremism of all sorts, cults forming, and millenarian groups from the various Abrahamic religions claiming that it's the end times. In a way, it would be -- the end of the current human epoch and the beginning of another. There would probably be mass suicides, religious orgies, throngs of people flocking to public squares to watch the alien visitors broadcast on big screens. that's silly. Humans aren't going to go lemmings the moment aliens appear. gently caress, people didn't commit mass suicides in the loving london bombings, I think they can handle the existence of extraterrestrial life. Massive social disruption, but people gotta eat and even the most interesting thing in creation isn't gonna stop people from going to work. Social upheaval is gonna require direct interference from the aliens, be it showing a government to be impotent, fundamentally altering the means of production with new tech, or forcible, rapid integration into Earth. But culture as a whole is gonna have a revolution, that I agree with.
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