The conspiracy thread from yesterday inspired this. This thread is pretty general. Discuss all things weird, strange, unexplained and down right creepy in this thread. It’s nearly Halloween and I would love to hear your personal stories of creepy things happening, theories you hold, cryptids that you like, have seen or want to talk about, good shows to watch, discussing the Dyatlov Pass Incident, etc. It’s a high strangeness thread. From Ghosts to Aliens, I want it all.
anthro= human. Centric = center. To make a point that "nearby" is anthropocentrism, I'm suggesting that the most literal way I can think of to parse the word would be placing humans in the center of the space they live in. I mentioned as a way of illustrating how "nearby" is clearly anthropocentric.
But it's not important.
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I'm not saying it's completely irrelevant. I think we should devote resources to things in proportion to their likelihood of changing the results. And when I say WE I'm not talking about humanity, because humanity doesn't have a singular motivation and skillset. NASA probably should continue to search for aliens as they see fit.
I think nearness is irrelevant for us, our faction. For one, if NASA pings aliens, it's like we all ping aliens. There is also a chance that humans are surrounded by signs of alien life all the time and the problem is a failure to recognize it. There is also a chance that humans notice an alien life but are never able to understand it or dialogue with it. Nearness might turn out to matter a great deal or not at all. We don't know. There is literally no way to assign probabilities.
every prioritization is arbitrary when you don't have the vaguest idea the possibilities.
since it's always an arbitrary decision, we should be the ones making it. Marxism is involved in understanding social systems and interactions with environments. I don't see how we're not relevant in this except arbitrary bourgeois decisions