listen,,,,,,, Ive laughed at the Humans Are Weird posts as much as anyone else, including the ones where aliens are completely befuddled by our ability to lie and make up stories but,,,,, l i s t e n
lies and making up stories are the result of our capacity for imagination
if you can imagine things, you can make shit up
making shit up INCLUDES thinking up new tools aka Technology™️
without the ability to imagine tools you dont already have you cannot create things
in other words, those aliens who have no imagination
we would have to go to them
and give them our technology
because they would not have even invented the wheel probably
imagine youre just a cavedwelling tentacle being, watching your 5 kids with eleven of your eyes, using 3 eyes to carve out the flesh of your prey and ready it for consumption
and then one of the eyes you had trained on the sky to watch out for predatory flying creatures spots this humongous............ weirldy shaped rock???? just coming down at you???????
skip to some time later when yall have Made Contact and the newcomers have figured out how to communicate with you
and they come from somewhere in the sky???? as if there could be anythin there that isn’t the wide blue expanse or the sparkly things??????
and these weird creatures are just. constantly talking. asking about ur life and telling u about theirs. but their life makes no sense??? and then u find out they can lie??? what even is a lie???? what???