Will 2024 finally be the year mankind makes contact with alien beings? No, because increasingly in the realm of exobiology (alien-hunting and allied pursuits), the very word ‘mankind’ itself is now forbidden as a hideous cisgender relic of patriarchal Western colonialism.
A new academic book, Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language, has just been released, imagining how it might be feasible for humans to begin speaking to aliens. In late December, meanwhile, NASA announced it had beamed a 15-second cat-video down to Earth via laser transmission, from a satellite positioned 19 million miles away in space. This formed part of the organisation’s Deep-Space Optical Communications (DSOC) mission, intended eventually to facilitate easy human communication between the different planets of the solar system – and maybe even their imagined non-human inhabitants too.
Yet the truly interesting question is not whether communication with E.T. is technologically feasible. Instead, it is what will we actually say if and when we do manage to make first contact? Increasingly, it seems as if all Earth will have left to announce will be little more than “Hello. Sorry we’re so white”.
Pioneering Stupidity
NASA was not always so needlessly ashamed of itself, and when sending its Pioneer 10 space-probe out into the galaxy back in 1972, famously included with it an illustrative plaque, depicting Earth’s chief intelligent inhabitants: a pair of naked people who were obviously white.
At the time, this all seemed perfectly natural. Today, however, it is deemed ‘unacceptable’.
In 2015, Russian millionaire Yuri Milner launched a $1 million prize for whoever could devise the most appropriate message to shoot up to E.T. One team of entrants was a band of Brits affiliated with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a global body which aims radio-telescopes at the sky to intercept possible signals from other worlds. At a SETI conference in Leeds, one member, the LSE’s Dr. Jill Stuart, expressed her intense distaste for the 1972 Pioneer plaque on the grounds that the nude humanoids on it had white faces, breasts and genitals. In any future such drawing, she said, “I would be uncomfortable with sending out any images or messages that include Western-dominated material” like white men’s penises.
Furthermore, pointed out Dr. Stuart censoriously, the man was raising his hand in greeting “in a very manly fashion” (maybe it was a Hitler salute?), whilst the woman adopted a pose deemed “all meek and submissive”, which made Dr. Stuart highly “uncomfortable”. Instead, any future such space-plaques should be redesigned with the inevitable pan-galactic shibboleth of “diversity” in mind, lest any ethically enlightened Klingons think badly of us.
Another SETI member present did object that this whole debate might well be moot, as “we don’t know if any aliens out there have eyes” to see the racist plaque with anyway, but he seems to have been ignored.
Dr. Who Does She Think She Is?
Who is Dr. Stuart? Yet another identikit Left-wing post-human pod-person of the kind churned out on an industrial basis by academia these days with all the pitiless regularity of a Cyberman factory. According to her LSE profile page, Dr. Stuart is “an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation” – with a distinct emphasis upon exploitation.
American by birth, and (I think) of some sort of Hispanic or indigenous extraction, Dr. Stuart bears the official, capitalised statuses of both ‘World Leader in Her Field’ and ‘Exceptionally Talented Migrant’. Perhaps she is the ‘World Leader’ in this particular field as there is nobody else on the planet intelligent enough to have combined her specific specialisms in “domestic and international mediation”, “women, peace and security and gender-based violence”, “the governance of the global commons”, “the ethics of colonisation”, “the mining of celestial resources”, “commercial actors in space”, “the threat from comets and asteroids” and even “insurance and liability issues”.
The valuable work of this “established feminist” will soon be appearing in the forthcoming book Space Feminisms (Bloomsbury, £90) and she once co-authored a 2009 working paper, ‘Science Fiction or Science Fantasy: The Gendered Portrayal of Aliens and the Discourse of Dominance in Outer Space Politics’. This is precisely the kind of individual now being set up to act as Earth’s future ambassador to the Pleiades or Zeta Reticuli: how incredibly representative of the average member of our species she sounds.
Davros In Davos
The woke mindset Dr. Stuart wishes to apply towards contacting aliens is just an extension of the very same mindset today’s ruling progressive caste apply towards ordinary Earthlings from other cultures.
The average modern so-called ‘multiculturalist’ does not believe in multiculturalism at all; instead, he or she stubbornly refuses to accept that other cultures even actually exist. If they did, they would not continue to engage in the demonstrable fantasy that all different civilisations are easily and infinitely interchangeable with one another and that, for example, the simple act of facilitating the mass transplantation of Arabs and Africans into Western cities in their millions would just automatically transform such ‘legal aliens’ all into good, biddable Guardian readers overnight.
They seem to think the same about extraterrestrials: that, once we meet them, beneath all the surface-deep ephemera of green skin, antennae and tentacles for mouths, they will all turn out to be just yet more politically agreeable Davos Men in the end (or maybe even Davros Men – he was in a wheelchair, so they’d just love him, insane murderous Dalek-creator or not).
This is mad. The notion that alien beings would actually care about the concept of ‘diversity’ is as laughable as thinking the average inhabitant of Dakar or Damascus has an insatiable, though hitherto highly-suppressed, hankering for gay parades.
Houston, We Have a Problematic
Quite possibly, any genuine aliens we may encounter could well prove to be so very ‘alien’ that any mutual understanding between us would be as impossible as fruitfully discussing Covid-transmission vectors with a pangolin. And yet still many elements within our scientific elite go on acting as if negotiating with any E.T.s who do land on the White House Lawn in the near future will be as simple as signing a new trade treaty. As I once argued elsewhere:
In November 2022, the University of St. Andrews announced the creation of a new SETI Post-Detection Hub, hosted by the establishment’s Centre for Exoplanet Science and Centre for Global Law and Governance, to act as an international clearinghouse for experts from scientific, legal, ethical and political fields to collaborate in “setting out impact assessments, protocols, procedures and treaties designed to enable a responsible response” to any newly detected E.T. presence … According to John Elliott, the project’s Chief Co-ordinator, mankind’s knowledge “will be advanced many steps as we learn ‘Extra-Terrestrial’”, just as happens when schoolchildren learn French.
PR materials promise that the hub’s existence will “close a substantial policy gap”, as there are no agreed global First Contact protocols established in international law for when aliens land for real. Accordingly, the hub will enlist “policy experts [like Dr. Jill Stuart, I wonder?] to work on topics ranging from message-decipherment and data analytics to the development of regulatory protocols, space law and societal impact strategies”. In H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, the invading Martians are ultimately defeated by the accidental ingestion of common Earth-borne viruses and bacteria; in Elliott’s Law of the Worlds, they will be disarmed instead by the forces of impenetrable 21st-century global contract law.
But what if it turns out any invading Fungi from Yuggoth don’t speak fluent Davosian after all? What if, like Columbus landing in the Americas, they come in a spirit not of peace, but of interplanetary colonialism and conquest themselves? What if – shock, horror – the aliens aren’t woke?
I shall return to this strange issue of Progressives from Pluto next time.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
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He’d get my vote if I was in the U.S but let’s be honest, he’s not got a snowball in hell’s chance. And I think we all know why so I won’t resort to being Captain Obvious..
And this is just a taste of the hate that’s coming his way;
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1643734754301288448
I’m sure he would agree with you that he has no chance of winning, he’s not stupid, and I don’t think he’s running in the hope that he might win, I think he’s running as it will give him a platform to make his views known to a wider audience and to have the opportunity to ask Biden and others awkward questions, etc.
Ron Paul’s two presidential runs were hugely influential in the USA for turning libertarianism from an academic curiosity to a mass movement, although he was largely airbrushed out of the BBC’s coverage of the Republican nominations even when he was doing relatively well.
Entirely agree Mogs but I would add that Robert Kennedy is one exceptionally brave man. Given his family history taking on the establishment is a very dangerous move. The reality is that he is not of course taking on dementia Joe but the whole phalanx of anti-humanists ranged against us.
Robert Kennedy is a very intelligent man and I am sure he will appreciate that once he formally declares a declaration of war will have been issued, to all intents and purposes.
The fake news, the false flag attacks will become constants.
Robert Kennedy fighting for the presidency of the USA will surely be a fight to the death. It is a fight for peace and freedom against misery, perpetual war and enslavement. And it is a fight that most definitely will not be confined to the United States.
God Bless Robert Kennedy. I do hope this is “cometh the hour, cometh the man.”
So, he’s brave, intelligent and on the side of peace and freedom against perpetual war and enslavement. I agree with your comments. The fact that nobody gives him a hope in hell is a really sad refection on the voting proclivities of the American people.
The guy is incredible and must have skin as thick as rhino hide to do what he’s done throughout all of these years. It’s like he thrives on the haters and vitriol that’s aimed his way because he doesn’t skip a beat, just keeps on going because not only is he intelligent but he knows he has truth on his side. Nothing phases him. Case in point; why hasn’t the poisonous gnome sued him for libel after the book RFK Jr wrote about him? Nope, the evil micro turd was still getting paid by the U.S government and held in high esteem anyway…RFK Jr is like the Duracell bunny for justice and truth, I just worry that this latest endeavour is gonna have a target painted on his back. Can lightening really strike twice in the same family? I wish him all the very best in his quest and will follow his journey with interest.
He has to cope with opposition even from within his own family, but at least his wife is supporting his presidential run.
Three times.
I could be wrong here, but as I understand it the good Senator WANTS Fauci to sue him for libel so that he can expose all Fauci’s wrongdoins. However Fauci won’t do this because he knows his lies will be exposed.
My guess is that, before long, Biden will be on a flight somewhere, perhaps Japan, and will send a signal somewhere.
By the time the plane lands in Tokyo, it will be found that, against all expectation, Robert F. Kennedy will have gone for a walk and decided to swallow a few pills and hack into his wrist with a blunt pocket knife, whilst sitting under a tree.
Joe Biden will announce to the Press in Tokyo that there will be a Public Enquiry (but no Inquest).
The Enquiry will find that he committed suicide.
Yes, I know, unbelievable. But we live in strange times.
I admire this guy greatly, but with his speech impediment his acceptance speech would last 2 days
OK Sorry it was a joke.
Yeah a joke but actually his speech problem would be a factor, surely. He’s highly intelligent and genuinely caring – whereas Sleepy Joe is a corrupt, vicious moron; but his speech impediment does indeed make him difficult to listen to unless one already has sympathy with his views and with him as a person. And I’ve a vague suspicion there aren’t many out there (comparatively speaking) who fit that bill.
Ron De Santis vs Robert F Kennedy Jr. That’d be Fauci’s presidential contest from hell.
No body is perfect but everything this man has to say is worth listening to. The level of corruption he reveals in his podcast and books is frightening. A brave man, let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself he is putting himself in the crosshairs.
Kennedy won’t win the Democratic nomination, he is not part of the woke crowd. The real joy of his campaign is going to be the debates. He has enough firepower of his own to run rings round Biden.
I agree he won’t get anywhere near, but like you say he will get air time hopefully. I think it will be difficult to cancel him but a certain intelligence organisation has many strings to its bow.
I think this is entirely his objective. He can debate the shit out of anyone in his path and leave them for dust. It’s what happens when you have masses of evidence and a vast knowledge of your subject, accrued over many years ( not to mention his lawyer skills ) at your disposal. He gets a spotlight on him and he will be a very formidable opponent for anyone wishing to take him on, and unlike Steve Kirsch, he doesn’t need to place monetary bets in the millions and wait for nobody to take him up on it. The hate and smears will come from all angles but it’s nothing new for this guy is it? Gotta respect a guy with such a monumental set of titanium-strength balls to take on this endeavour.
I must be popular today my uptick is worth about 5 or 6.
Whether he wins the White House or not, his candidacy will force the Democrat party to declare what it is or reveal what it’s not. It’s not remotely the party of JFK and RFK Sr. It’s now the woke totalitarian censorship party, and party leaders’ reaction to his run will make that clear, no matter how much they try to smear RFK Jr.
I think John Leake sums up RFK Jr brilliantly;
”Mr. Kennedy was an environmental activist thirty years before it became fashionable. For decades, he worked as an attorney to protect the natural world from corporate industrial polluters. He has been especially troubled by the contamination of our waterways such as the Hudson River with hazardous waste, including mercury. In 2005 he became concerned about a mercury compound used as a preservative in childhood vaccines, which prompted him to conduct a thorough investigation of vaccine safety in general. He found it especially alarming that the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act granted vaccine manufacturers immunity from all civil and criminal liability for injuries or deaths caused by their products.
In the absence of legal liability, he realized that the only thing likely to regulate their conduct is scrutiny from a public figure, and because no other public figures were stepping up to do it, he himself assumed the responsibility. No good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes. Mr. Kennedy’s critical scrutiny of vaccine makers (coining billions while bearing zero product liability) has not been met with debate, but with vitriolic, ad hominem attacks and accusations of being a conspiracy theorist. Implied in these attacks is that no one should dare even question the safety of vaccines.”
Seriously though, if RFK Jr has an untimely demise due to pneumonia or Covid, we know it’s all complete horseshit.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-running-for-president
Thanks for this post Mogs, I’d say it was bang on the money.
I hope, for his sake, that the Deep State doesn’t use the same “stop Kennedy” methods they used in the ’60s.