Existential threat will unite human race?
Dear Editor,
Strangely and sadly, what humankind may need in order to survive the very long term is an even greater non-humanoid nemesis than our own politics and perceptions of differences — especially those involving race — against which we could all unite, defend, attack, and defeat, then greatly celebrate.
Perhaps a humanicidal, multi-tentacled extraterrestrial (ET) invader, like that from the 1996 blockbuster movie Independence Day. During this much-needed human allegiance, we’d be forced to work side by side and witness just how similar we are.
I’ve been informed, however, that one or more human parties might actually attempt to forge an allegiance with the ETs to better their own chances for survival, thus indicating that our wanting human condition may be even worse than I had originally thought.
Still, maybe some five or more decades later, when all traces of the nightmarish ET invasion are gone we will inevitably revert to the politics to which we humans seem so collectively hopelessly prone.
Frank Sterle Jr
Canada
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