Will aliens be political?

ChrisIB

Honorable
I don't think so, not in the least. Robots will do all the work so government will become just mechanism and personal choice will be the only thing that matters in peoples lives.

That said, these boards are quite political. People obviously have pride in their country, their own interests, the threat from other systems, dislike of the status quo (here in the UK we are subjects of the crown). Perhaps all mitigated by a certain distrust of politicians.

If one way of evaluating systems is to look at the people produced then personally the Chinese people I have met impressed me, ditto for some from the Nordic countries.
So will we like the aliens we eventually meet?

I guess one friction point galactically may be the groups produced by evolutionary paths, mammals, reptiles, avians, parasites.
 

pepe

Celestial
Nearly all animals are territorial by nature and we are certainly not any different, although our goal does seem to become so.
Politics in the animal Kingdom is very obvious among our nearest relations with the chimpanzee that can gain favour by using sympathy and compassion to undermine the route one bullying tactic, echoes of ourselves in modern day society and reflects how little a way we have come so far.

I would say where ever there is intelligent life you will find a political system holding it up like a trellis does a creeper.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
So will we like the aliens we eventually meet?

I'm sure some will and some will also be terrified, whilst others will be indifferent, still others will despise the alien visitors...We will have a very diverse mixed reaction to any intelligent alien visitors, especially at first, before the masses of opinion swallow others and take the reins...I do not think first contact publicly would go over well, more so if its a surprise visit, them just showing up unannounced...

In regards to robots and/or AIs, I think there would be some species out there which would never develop or use robots and AI...Their society would be structured quite differently but I believe some intelligent species could evolve and develop very advanced technology over a million years without the need nor desire for AI or robots...

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ChrisIB

Honorable
Talking of politics, James Woods is back on Twitter and whatever you think of his opinions, like Trumpet, never boring.
#Socialism is a cancer. Every nation that has embraced it has inevitably rotted from within. Don’t be fooled by nitwits. Nothing is “free.”
And hopefully you will eventually be victorious in your quest to bring the #RapistClinton to justice. We will stand by you until he is behind bars (hopefully monitored by the same guards who watched over Jeffrey Epstein).
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I'm not sure a group of 30 people in a room can actually agree on anything much less a planet full of billions.

Some will fear. Some will open their arms.

No doubt a few Chinese entrepreneurs will determine that Zeta Reticulian organs give humans fantastic luck and boners.
 

pepe

Celestial
I'm not sure a group of 30 people in a room can actually agree on anything much less a planet full of billions.

Some will fear. Some will open their arms.

No doubt a few Chinese entrepreneurs will determine that Zeta Reticulian organs give humans fantastic luck and boners.

Lol... Totally.

Some of what I've seen at market looks like they might already have downed one.

Spielberg used the backdrop of a Chinese market for an easily understood entrance of the Gremlins.
 

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
Actually, I am 10 times more interested into their social system than in UFO propulsion.

It would be really fun to get a fool proof template about what political system is really the best, democracy or dictatorship.
 
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