If you think about what is needed for a civilization, one could argue that violent tendencies would have to be greatly surpressed, almost to the point it wasnāt a core component of the biology if that civilization. What if aliens have visited, silently and fearfully observing us, stealing test subjects in the dark of night, watching our technology advance at a terrifying rate, slowly, yet steadily, clawing our way up and out of our gravity well. The whole way, one mistake and 45 minutes away from destroying ourselves.
Because violence beyond steps taken for immediate self defense is simply unthinkable for them, wiping us out in our infancy is something only we can contemplate, and thus, including this story, is a dark reflection of the evil we may unleash on a peaceful and completely unprepared for aggression of any kind, Galaxy. This is a galaxy that hasnāt seen war in eons, murder is almost always caused by negligence and inaction than through a overt act. A galaxy that treats signs of short temperment and outbursts of anger as sever mental illness.
The consensus among them is that we will do to ourselves what countless other violent and aggressive civilizations have done; simply wipe ourselves out in a mega orgy of death and destruction that will leave our planet, at worse our solar system, completely uninhabitable for thousands of our years. Our intelligence, adatability, diversity, and independence of thought evidence even in the strictest of our various social and governmental structures would be worrying if not so clearly obvious we would destroy ourselves. The violent āhumansā as they call themselves, are simply incapable of the united single mindedness needed to successfully leave their gravity well beyond the small sensors launched nearly blind into the void, and the communication platforms and science platforms kept in low orbit about their homeworld. A homeworld they poison at a rate even they find alarming, if unable to stop even that in global unity.
Besides, if they donāt do it to themselves, they are mathematically overdue for a global life killing event.. a relatively small meteor, a sudden eruption on thier equally tectonically violent planet, hell, the stupid creatures still canāt stop something as simple as a flu virus, although, to be fair, even the bacteria and viruses mutate at alarming rates. The planet evolved to kill, eat, destroy and multiple, right down to the single cell organisms..
No way the creatures will beat all the odds and manage to gain the technology to give themselves a foothold elsewhere, allowing them to survive when, not if, disaster struck. And before that clock ran out, they were going to commit sucide by violent tendencies anyway. This is what they smuggle told each other, before fitfully returning to watch again, worried as they see cooperation and innovation keeping a half step ahead of their destruction. Silently dreading the unspeakableā¦
What happens if humanity lasts long enough to get off their rock, the majority of their violent tendencies leashed and guided into massive technology leaps? Worse, what if the leaps let them see what they have long suspected? See that, indeed, they are not alone. What would happen if these violent barbarianās make this discovery, and instead of cowering in fear, or humbly submitting themselves to the wisdom of civilizations that have prospered and grown over eons through peace and cooperation, see instead what their ancestors saw whengazjng upon the wolly mammoth? A thing large, and strong, and even fearsom, but slow to adapt, slower of whit, and with just a minimum of cooperation, a walking larder of riches on the hoodā¦.
Humanities art is even violent, filled with stories of terrors from the skies. But the dark truth isā¦ā¦what if humanity is that terror, far scarier then the darkest and most grim of their stories and movies?
The watch continues silently, the Galaxy waiting to see what, if anything, this fledgling, violent, brutal and self destructive race becomes if it manages to leave itās nestā¦ā¦
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