Rare Earth by Peter Ward is what you’re after here. I took an elective in college that effectively was reading a bunch of space science (and history, it was odd) and discussing. This one caught me off guard but was a decent breakdown of a possible answer to Fermi.
I don’t necessarily agree with the supposition, mainly because it still comes from a place of specifically carbon-based life as the end goal. But they do lay out reasoning in an easy to understand way that was super neat to learn.
Personally? Nationalism & nation states. The longer they stay around, the more likely everyone is to think they’re more deserving of X, and pull the literal and metaphorical trigger that leads to hitting the filter.
I recognize that individuality is very much our thing, but that will literally only take you so far.
Aight, so long as we’re including other religious texts and having the class be a deep dive into similarities and differences and what might make the “human condition” between all of them, I’m game.
Oh no? Just American Christianity? Sounds like something that goes against the Constitution there.
sips tea
Welp. I chuckled a lot through that ❤️
“Waiter, there’s US in my tea?”
Legitimately didn’t expect to see this, but then again my main bubble of frustrating news is US