What Is The Mission Of The Aliens?

The iconic conception of extraterrestrial aliens who manage to get across the distances to come visit us, is that they have somewhat superior technology than we do, but they have gotten it a cost to what we all like to call 'human values,' which is not necessarily meant to be the exact same thing as 'moral values.'

And so the typical basis of trade and interaction in most of the sci-fi or fantasy movies and books that you will encounter - is that we want their technology, and we get it by somehow 'giving back to them' their own lost plangency and inner natural values that they 'evolved' away from over centuries or even thousands of years.

'Human values' in the hands of the myth-makers and film makers, is sentiment, or something along those lines.

And 'moral values' are generally linked to religious ideas and ideologies and are less significant, in the mind set that is encouraged by the popular media - that is to say, less significant than some simpering and childish expression of 'what it means to be human.'

In our typical atavistic way, we seem to simply have to begin with seeing something that someone else has, that we can 'get.'

But is that how 'the aliens' see things? ...A bunch of coldly logical, exquisitely technologically equipped intelligent beings, sitting inside 'cloaked' and invisible space ships just outside of the Moon, watching endless re-runs of 'Lassie Comes Home' and 'Shane' and seeing whether they can re-ignite their lachrymose glands?

The mission of NASA is straightforward: get more funding.

And the 'mission' of humans is also easy to apprehend: get, basically, anything that will be of benefit. Wow, technical superiority, advanced weapons, energy devices, blah blah blah.

And so the factual reality is that the very first thing an intelligent species not from here will be able to ascertain on the whole about humans, is that - hey, these people are childish, desirous of things without due consideration for consequences and how these will be met, and, well, they want things; they are almost permanently desirous.

We shall soon explore what might be the actual mission of 'the aliens.'