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1. zandar,

   27 October, 2008 at 7:13 pm

   One sale would be one more than she deserves. Why people get away with this over and over again, usu­ally comes around to des­per­a­tion. It’s sad people would rather believe this kind of thing instead of just work­ing together to make the world a bet­ter place.

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2. Christiaan,

   27 October, 2008 at 9:17 pm

   I think it’s prob­ably a mix­ture of des­pair, dis­em­power­ment and con­sumer­ism zandar.

   They look at the ills of the world and deep down they lose all hope, they don’t feel like they have enough say to change things and they’re look­ing for instant res­ults. All of which could be alle­vi­ated by the arrival of ali­ens in shin­ing armer.

   Then there’s the other scen­ario where people don’t want to believe that humans could be so dys­func­tional as to des­troy life on earth, so they blame bad ali­ens who have cross­bred with humans to give us the likes of Dick Cheney.

   All of which is under­pinned by con­firm­a­tion bias.

   The sad real­ity is that our type of organ­isa­tional intel­li­gence may well not be con­du­cive to sur­vival — we may des­troy ourselves for no reason other than we were an evol­u­tion­ary mis­take — which may also answer the ques­tion of why we don’t appear to have come in con­tact with oth­ers like us.

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