Grumbles from a Visiting Alien
We come here to absorb your culture – maybe spend a year or two here and then return home. Home? To you, a long long way. To me, a rather tedious uncomfortable transition similar to flying from London to Las Vegas. I do sympathise by the way. Your flying machines, aircraft, jets, are awful. Not to say the processing at either end.
I say we; to infiltrate your western cultures is as confusing for us as if you yourselves fly for the first time to China. You have no idea if you have upset anyone. At first, no idea of the language, behavioural norms, concepts; then later, dawning realisation of the similarities between visually divergent but same species. We have our own version of “Lonely Planet”. We don’t come here totally unprepared. Until we get here, then find we are; totally so.
For example, you all have rudeness. This the first thing we are warned of. Your dogs growl and bark snarled warnings, your cats spit and hiss and strike their matches. Certain snakes rattle their tails in disapprobation; but humans! You seem to want to attack the very psyche, existence and self esteem with sharply honed weapon-words!
I was in New York and asked a policeman how to get to Manhattan.
'Yeah Buddy! No problem. Buy a frikkin' map!'
To summarise the so called human race is to flag up in huge sky signs facing outwards, into what you call the void, around your planet –
“ Do not come here! You will be confused, drowned, electrocuted, raped, murdered, killed accidentally, wounded, starve, die of disease, get eaten by huge wild animals or micro bacteria. If you survive these things worse awaits you; poverty, class division, poor education, insults, paranoia, depression and grinding disappointment! Or…”
The “Or” is the reason we persist.
...I give you examples. Chosen at random from my online blog diary after several months here. Nobody took any notice; this is an easy world to infiltrate.
Within lie some answers to questions you may have. Some of it sounds naïve but those were my impressions, my mindset at the time. I will expand later.
