Aliens Got Boring
Has anyone else stop caring about aliens?
As a kid I loved the idea of aliens, and any movie, show, or game that featured aliens was a must experience.
As a teenager and early adult, I started to watch more serious discussions of aliens, things like Coast-to-Coast radio, Ancient Aliens, and whatever I could find on YouTube.
Later on, I delved into reading some of the literature on the topic, such as science fiction books and a few conspiracy books; consumed all of the X-Files show for entertainment and continued to indulge in entertaining ideas about aliens.
Then, I read loads of theories on Twitter and Reddit. I explored the spiritual aspect of Aliens, like the idea that they are angels/demons, interdimensional beings or automatons built in a facility at the bottom of the ocean. I read all about loosh harvesting, the Earth as a prison planet, the Moon as a reincarnation device that keeps throwing our souls back into a permanent suffering cycle so these archon beings can consume our energy. Things just got wilder and wilder, the theories went deeper, the evidence more realistic-sounding, and popular podcasters were all over the subject from every angle.
Then I got bored of it. All of it. The last thing that excited me was when Norad shot down UFOs over North America. After that caused absolutely no excitement or revelations, I got over it. I realized if aliens ever appeared, people wouldn’t know about it, nothing would happen, and, most importantly, nothing would change.
I was brainwashed as a kid to believe the appearance of aliens would change everything. Not only would every religion have to reexamine itself, not only would politics and tribalism have to change, but there would be a transformation in our economy, our technology, our philosophy. Except this won’t happen. It hasn’t already happened, assuming aliens are among us, and it won’t happen because there won’t be any large event like Hollywood has depicted.
If aliens were to ever take over the planet, I don’t think anyone would know about it. There won’t be any intergalactic trade, no diverse Star Wars or Star Trek-like populations. No interstellar travel or colonization.
There will be nothing different, and this is why aliens got boring for me. Once you see that humanity is on its own, that it must make or break itself, aliens are a minor afterthought. Like Jesus’s Second Coming, until aliens come and change the course of humanity forever, there isn’t any use bothering about it, you have to live life as if such an event will never happen. Once the excitement wears off, it’s time to grow up and move on, and I suppose I have. I wish others would too, there are way too many people who waste untold amounts of time and effort pouring their energies down this rabbit hole.
That is the true loosh drain, to cause people to waste their lives on nothing, like scrolling social media. Even speculating about aliens feels like a boring waste of time to me. Any human endeavor is much more interesting and important because it’s there and actionable.
It’s like the stories you hear of people who have experienced psychedelics. Whatever happens to our minds when on those drugs is not important. The body and the brain function to keep us soberly in the present. Whatever else may be or may come to be once we are released from our flesh homes, it is the flesh home that is important to focus on because it’s meant to filter everything else out. All of those machine elves, astral worlds and beings, or the rich internal tapestry of one’s physical self if the ‘self’ component is dissolved (I saw a title to an article that shrooms temporarily dissolve whatever brain connections give us the idea of self), are simply irrelevant.
At the end of the day, you’ve got to eat, drink, sleep and move around. You cannot escape it, yet we are always trying through our minds or drugs. Aliens are a form of this escape, an escape into fiction, or if let’s say they are a part of our reality, then they are so far removed they may as well be fiction.
This is why there’s this meme. I know I’m not the only one who no longer cares. There isn’t even any effort to make aliens much different from people in the realm of entertainment.
