Well, COVID has already shown us what really happens when a greater force comes and threatens humanity…
but consider that diseases do not have a physical form that we are able to shoot at
I maintain if Covid made the same kind of blisters as something like cowpox (which may also become a pandemic at some point) or had any other kind of physical, outward appearance-changing effects, we would have had hundreds of millions of people throwing themselves at the CDC begging for masks and vaccinations.
Our species doesn’t deal with “invisible” threats very well. We have vastly overestimated our species’ ability to rationalize past monkey-senses and instincts.
I don’t know… At this point I think you’d have the blister deniers and then they’d try to treat it with cornstarch and toenail clippings. And some aspiring group of power hungry assholes would turn the blister mongers against the pure skinned to create a divide they could monetize.
Scary to think we might be on the best timeline.
blister deniers and then they’d try to treat it with cornstarch and toenail clippings.
See, the thing is these fuckwits have been around since the dawn of time. I had them in my own family. Nature tended to take care of them over long stretches of time.
The reason we’re so fucked is that these outliers and fringe kooks have megaphones, and there is huge money in promoting bullshit schlock on people who are poorly educated and don’t trust science because they fill their brains with celebrity makeover reveals and purse accessory trends and WWE wrestler feuds.
Even worse, the controversy it creates just publishing articles about the kooks makes halfway intelligent people outraged, which increases engagement, which boosts the kook ideas even higher.
This is capitalism’s form when it kills us all. Not with nuclear weapons or lasers from the sky, but with a long, slow, festering plague that leaves everyone broke and sick except for the fraction of a fraction of people who end up with ALL the money and live forever.
Also climate collapse
Yeap
The criminally insane start screeching and half of humanity applauds them because reasons
Wait, where’s the part where Joe Rogan joins forces with the alien after “doing his own research”?
xD
He wouldn’t openly at first, he would have some obscure, unheard-of fringe guest on who believes the man-eating tentacle monsters are actually good for us and we should befriend them because of [insert crank, vague, hand-wavy theory with no real science but lots of big words] and Joe will go “Whoa… that’s wild, I never thought about it like that.” And then shrug and say “What do I know, I’m just a dumb big ol’ guy, you know. Jamie, can we fact check this?” and then they’ll move on to talk about celebrity gossip.
Then that person he platformed will go on to sell a million books because of the exposure, then Joe will have him on again because now he’s a huge author and they can talk in hushed tones about how important the topic is, and that interview, because of the controversy of Joe giving him more exposure, will get a lot of backlash which will make it appear on the front page of everyone’s news feed, giving the author even more exposure until he becomes filthy rich and gets a spot in Trump’s cabinet.
I hate it here by the way.
Isn’t this the plot of Watchmen?
It’s the last couple pages of Watchmen, not really the plot overall. It’s the villain’s secret end goal that wasn’t really foreshadowed very well? (The movie tried to do better in this regard)
It kind of was, but only if you already know what Alan Moore was smoking.
I thought it was foreshadowed in retrospect, like, you’re not supposed to figure it out in advance but when you look back you see all the clues and pieces and that it was there the whole time
Spoilers
Colonization 101.
Say you’re a conqueror and you pull up on an island with three tribes. The Lions are 75% of the population and control 95% of the wealth; the Tigers are 22% and control 4%. The Bears are 3% of the people and have 1% of the wealth.
You, the colonizer, give the Bears weapons and let them keep 2% of the money. You keep 98%.
The Lions and Tigers hate the Bears way more than they hate you.
This is why I’ve been saying furries are dangerous for years now.
Alan Moore would like a word with you.
Obviously this is not based on Alan Moore’s work, there’s no sexual assault in it.
If there’s one thing I don’t criticize Moore for it’s having his men with power act like men with power
Do you think his work glorified sexual assault? Or just portrayed? Or are we past even that kind of differentiation now?
This is why I like the Flashman books.
They are pretty much the only historical novels I’ve read where the colonizers are portrayed realistically
Extremely valuable intel here. A tentacle could actually produce a thumbs-up gesture, if you think about it.
“[out group] isn’t doing their part in defending against this threat!”
“We need to give these [threat] sympathizers equal air time.”
“Doesn’t [threat] deserve rights?”
10 min after defeating the aliens: Get off my lawn!!!
They will fight about who of them offed the aliens and won: Someone definitely did more than the rest, and this someone is most obviously me! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ
Robbers Cave experiment, anyone?
Ronald Reagan, is that you?
