20111221 (J)
Journal: December 21, 2011
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Idea of "Other"                              Morality                              Senses

Winter: The winter solstice, grey misty morn. No real snow or cold yet this winter.

Life Beyond Earth: Oh yes, the reason I opened the journal,

Shibboleth: “Finding life elsewhere in the universe besides earth would be good” (Sun Times Dec 12, 2011, page 3), AP author from New York claims recent evidence is an “encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere”.

Why do we want to find it? To conquer it? To teach it about America's values being the correct ones in the universe (as Captain Kirk nobly does)? To learn from it how to solve our problems? Boy! What a place to learn military and quality-of-life things. Or just to tell it what a joy it is to have neighbors, assuming they want nosy neighbors?

Hoping of course we don’t meet some totalitarian or, worse, valueless giant that could quash us like an ant.