"I always found it flattering," Jack said. "But the cultures I lived in
were just as exotic to me as I was to them. Funny that way, huh?" he said.
"But that's how it has to be if the human race is ever going to move on.
Grow up. If we can't stop thinking of one another as different, how in the
hell are we ever going to accept something...bigger? What if...what if
aliens came to Earth today? What would they see? Apes...killing each other.
If I was an alien I'm not sure I'd bother with us," he said, giving away
far too much, and at the same time nothing at all.
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Date: 2015-04-11 06:23 am (UTC)"I always found it flattering," Jack said. "But the cultures I lived in were just as exotic to me as I was to them. Funny that way, huh?" he said. "But that's how it has to be if the human race is ever going to move on. Grow up. If we can't stop thinking of one another as different, how in the hell are we ever going to accept something...bigger? What if...what if aliens came to Earth today? What would they see? Apes...killing each other. If I was an alien I'm not sure I'd bother with us," he said, giving away far too much, and at the same time nothing at all.