Kinda reminds me of that Philip K. Dick story in which extraterrestrials trading with our planet offered us a number of questionable goods that got banned at the customs office, but these all turned out to be decoys; one of the trade goods that passed muster was a Monopoly-like board game that taught its players that “To lose is to win!” such that the generation of children who grew up playing it ultimately ended up giving our planet to the aliens because… well, they’d been taught that to lose the planet was to win it, you see.
What if the alien plan is to make us so paranoid about the possibility of alien invasion that we bankrupt ourselves building elaborate defence systems, thus causing our own society to collapse from the inside? Huh? Huh?
Kinda reminds me of that Philip K. Dick story in which extraterrestrials trading with our planet offered us a number of questionable goods that got banned at the customs office, but these all turned out to be decoys; one of the trade goods that passed muster was a Monopoly-like board game that taught its players that “To lose is to win!” such that the generation of children who grew up playing it ultimately ended up giving our planet to the aliens because… well, they’d been taught that to lose the planet was to win it, you see.
One day you’re going to say, “Wow, I’ve NEVER seen that joke before!” and my flabber shall be gasted.
What if the alien plan is to make us so paranoid about the possibility of alien invasion that we bankrupt ourselves building elaborate defence systems, thus causing our own society to collapse from the inside? Huh? Huh?