I feel like the aliens are here and have subverted humanity already. When will the ‘rest of us’ wake up to act instead of just talk?
I feel like the aliens are here and have subverted humanity already. When will the ‘rest of us’ wake up to act instead of just talk?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_Day_(3_Body_Problem...
> The avatar details how crippling Earth's scientific advancement will prevent humans from technologically surpassing them before they arrive
We can quibble over a reasonable length of an embargo, but it's not infinite.
Snape killing Dumbledore or Leia being Luke's sister or Paul Atreides becoming God-Emperor shouldn't shock anyone.
Media is released. People consume media. At some point, everyone who is interested can reasonably be expected to have consumed it.
The only difference between current reality and the predictions of past conspiracy theorists is that the perpetual motion machines only work in direct sunlight.
So we're not going to act. Actions are hard enough when everyone is in touch with reality. All potential solutions have trade-offs and everyone wants somebody else to pay the costs.
Add in a smallish but highly influential set who are convinced that the entire thing is a hoax, and progress maxes at zero. You'll be lucky if the problem doesn't accelerate. (Which is indeed what it seems to be doing.)
And if someone cares that much about consuming something that already exists in another form... maybe also be curious enough to consume it there?
I'm certainly not going to censor myself for people who are a decade+ late to the party and refuse to read a book.