On Aug 16, 2:06 am, "Chris.B" <chri...@mail.dk> wrote:

 Nothing we communicated was untrue but you chose to
criticise the format of our communications? Did any of you actually
read anything we sent or did you just scan and dismiss us as just more
cybernuts?

The format of the communications was such as to make that inevitable.

Yet have unwisely placed your life
control systems in the hands of only the most selfish and immoral
amongst you.

For super-intelligent aliens, that particular sentence happens to be
rather surprising. Because it makes a statement that is really dumb.

The human beings of Earth have not _chosen_ to place control of it's
resources in the hands of the ambitious and avaricious.

Am I saying that it just happened by accident? Oh, no. It happened
according to predictable laws - rules which you lot should be
intelligent enough to understand by now, even if the human race hasn't
quite figured out how to deal with them.

Most larger animals on Earth have stable dominance hierarchies. Once
an animal surrenders in ritual combat to determine access to mates or
rank order, the fight automatically ends. Humans don't have this; they
can kill each other. (Why? "The Descent of Woman" by Elaine Morgan, in
the first edition and the pocket book version.)

When conditions are favorable, all Earthly life forms breed so that
their populations expand exponentially. In this way, when conditions
are less favorable, their populations will not rapidly shrink so as to
result in extinction. This means that population growth does not stop
short of the point where comfort is turned into misery. For any
animal, not just the one that only very recently developed The Pill so
that foresight need no longer war with one of the strongest and most
ancient of instincts.

We increased our food production by inventing agriculture. This meant,
though, that we had an investment in our food tied up in a given patch
of land. We had to fight to defend ourselves from other hungry,
crowded people who were still trying to feed themselves the old way,
through hunting and gathering, or nomadic herding. And then
agricultural communities grew, and began to abut each other. They
became hungry, and needed to grow.

So we never really could all choose to just get along. And it just
takes one nation to choose aggression to affect all the others. If
there's somewhere to run to, they can run away. They can be beaten. Or
they can organize themselves so that they can fight better than the
other one that started it, and win. ("The Parable of the Tribes", by
Andrew Bard Schmookler.)

We're the ones left standing after all this, and _you're_ surprised
that our leadership emphasizes having rich men around, so they can
build big factories that are good for making planes and tanks and
battleships? Instead of living in harmony with nature using windmills
and bicycles?

Well, since the superintelligent aliens are too dumb to provide useful
advice about the problem, except to point out the obvious that we
already knew, I guess we'll just have to work out a solution
ourselves.

John Savard