But not a God, with moral rules. From campus pastor Peter Burfeind at The Federalist:
Lacking any evidence of an actual alien, Hollywood’s aliens speak more about the modern psyche fueling the imaginations of their designers.
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The aliens in “Arrival” look like tree trunks. Get it? The trees are coming to tell us to work together. (They might acquaint themselves with the rock group Rush to get the full story.) I can’t imagine that has anything to do with the dreamy fantasies of environmentalists.
Or again, the alien in “Alien” (1979), fetal in appearance, antagonizes the crew and their ship’s computer, “Mother,” until it gets sucked out of the ship. Wow, can’t imagine that had anything to do with a culture hiding from the moral horror of abortion, as E. Michael Jones brilliantly observed in his must-read “Monsters from the Id” (2000).
This is all wonderful, fun stuff to help us probe the curiosities of the modern human psyche. But in the end, the phantasmic reality of aliens on the silver screen only serves as an escape from facing the Fermi Paradox, reminding us to what extent people will go to prop up the delusions of modernity.
Where are the aliens? They don’t exist, because if they did, they’d be all over the place. The fact they don’t exist tosses a huge Molotov conundrum into modernist epistemology. More.
Yes, that’s the worst part. The aliens don’t exist, God probably does, and other people definitely do. Hence all the weirdness.
See also: Astrophysicist: No, space aliens are never the answer to mystery radio signals
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How do we grapple with the idea that ET might not be out there?
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Actually, it’s all kind of ridiculous, isn’t it?