Potato boogie

I don't know why I said potato, I'm drinking rum.

So, the battle continues.  I just read through a few of my older myspace blog entries.
I used to be funny!
Where the fuck did that go??

Hell, if you go with some of those, Knuckles really did exist.  But he's more a manifestation of time.  So more like Deus.  Holy shit, Knuckles became Deus.  And Deus is a moogle. 
Ahhh, circle of life.

So tell ya what, I'm gonna go get another drink, go outside, look at the stars until my eyes bleed, then come back here and weave another web of lies.  Sound dandy?  You bet.

You know what helps keep your pants up?  A properly operated belt.

Damn Jupiter, you're big and bright but damn difficult to focus on.  Decided:  I need a much larger telescope.  And possibly a back brace.  Ow.

To actually get into the thing I wanted to get into, which is, your pants, please let me take off my shoes.
Oh and the children will have to wait.
Damn, that sounded worse than even I intended it.

Ok, so I was on the one weird side of Youtube the other day.  The other weird side is the one has hot girls with giraffe masks on getting poked in the boob with a trombone with a glove on it.  Did I mention a Lamborghini?  Anyhoo, this weird part is the paranormalwooooo000000oooooo.
This particular special was about 10 mins long and featured a presentation by Michio Kaku on the stages of advance civilizations and the future, if not too far off, of contact with aliens. 
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Ok sorry, it's 14 mins long.  Well anyhoosiwhatsit, the whole theme of the video is media conditioning and the secrets the world are being held from.  Of particular note I want to touch on the themes of the multiple news organizations.  They are under the supposedly educated assumption that aliens will be mean, evil creatures.  Even going to the lengths of calling them something along the lines of resource-mongering locusts?  Really?  And I can see how this issue came up.  Mr. Kaku talks of how the search for extraterrestrial life is focused on finding planets with similar conditions to ours.  Well by that token, this planet that has similar conditions to our own would therefore have similar creatures to us.  This is what I'm getting from this.  Their evolution would be close to ours so of course all we have to do is look at our own history....

Oooh, that's where the cookie crumbles.  Our history paints a vivid picture of blood, hatred, domination, subversion, deceit, and downright cruelty to our own kind.  So of course that's what aliens would do to us. 
BECAUSE A RACE OF CREATURES CAPABLE OF INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL WOULD BE SO SIMPLE AND PITIFUL.

But listen, in every scene of horror in our history, there have always been those promoting and advocating peace, understanding, and cooperation.  I'm of the personal belief that there are those both individuals and organizations operating today that are active in subduing these ideals.  So what if these alien beings opted for those concepts?  Peace can exist outside of this planets boundaries.  Mayhaps even within it. 
Going back, would a society based out of space perhaps understand the ideas of mass cooperation and benefits for the many, not the few?  Perhaps they are simply pursuing the idea of exploration.  Maybe our planet isn't even worth their time until we pose a threat.  Kinda like driving through the New Jersey turnpike, you have to go through it, but you don't want to stay there.

And here is where the mind blowing stuff comes in.  Let's turn the tables on the sci-fi writers a moment.  Take Star Trek as a prime example.  In the future, humans have progressed so far as to pretty much take over space and make alliances with various aliens.  Flip it.
We progress enough to become a presence in space.
Then we are approached.
By a coalition of like-minded beings whose goals are nothing but unification and peace.
We are given the option of joining them or not.  Not, or else.
But how would they be perceived?  Perhaps due to media, as betrayers hell bent on conquering us.  Would we have developed weapons at this point?
Would we shoot first and ask questions later? 
What if we pissed off a unified galaxy?  What would happen then?  Would our space privileges be revoked?  Could we be place under planetary arrest?
How would that hurt the good ole American pride I wonder?

Now don't get me wrong.  I'm sure as my vanity is massive, that out of all the alien races out there, there are the good, the bad, and the beauty challenged.  We are not without due caution.  But to just assume they will be as bad as us is just as sad. 
On a final note, I like the way Men in Black portrayed it.  A self governing body within the Earth that runs its' stuff, while letting everything else outside the planet just kinda go on.  And the original aliens were met with peace damnit.  We should learn a thing or two from movies.

Wow, when I haven't blogged in a while I get kinda pent up don't I?  Gomenesai. 
Oh and for the latter half of this blog, I was shirtless.
Imagine away.  And for those of you who know, fantasize away.
Deus, away!