We've been condition in such a way, if it were made public that we have visitors, it wouldn't be such big news as it would've been 10 years ago.
Better that than widespread panic, right?
Men in Black handled this idea well enough when they said it was alien tech that gave us Microwaves and The Internet, that naturally they needed people to think it was humanity that made it to keep things civil.
All contact with ET's should be done in a recorded G20 like setting. cause it can upset powerful militaries if the Aliens wanted to chill with say, Iran but not anyone else.
That's assuming the ET's even have a perspective on leadership. That's always presumed in old school alien films, the whole 'take me to your leader' thing, whereas if they were a race without leaders that worked more socialist they'd find such a concept strange and alien. It's people who assume that leadership is the natural conclusion, but we don't see that in most species on Earth.
Otherwise yeah they've gone with this idea in comics about Superman, especially the series titled 'Red Son' where he's Russian.
Any advice like messages or suggestions from them would perceptually be a threat, as our species isn't used to being dominated by other species that are more powerful than we are.
Pretty sure humans sublimate that vibe through racism. Having a species that is superior to humanity might be what it would take to do away with it in a relative sense, similar to how the world already handles Nationalism.
It'd also be less of a shock for nations or people who are used to not being winners.
I am convinced that racism exists because of how humanity's at the top of our own perceived pecking order. If we had to band together to stop humanoid lions from eating us, I'm sure that'd take precedent over someone with different skin color.
Only a hostile invasion will bring us together, or so we think. There will still be looters and other dumb asses cutting loose as though it's the end of the world so they might as well hog up the goods.
A common enemy has that effect.
If a powerful ET wanted to nerf us, they would kill off the working class and let the woke live to leave us to crumble, then probably brag how efficient it was to exterminate us that way.
They'd probably go with cutting off the head of the snake instead, causing panic over killing world leaders (or celebrities they mistake for leaders), if they have the intel to understand how we function rather than projecting their own alien presumptions. Killing an entire class of people is a lot more work than aiming for a few key figures, it's a matter of efficiency, as if the workers suddenly have no bosses for example then where will that work go?
It's not even like Classism where you could introduce cheap-but-poisonous alternatives to building materials and food, can spread diseases, vices, and deviancy or other such things as to contribute to their rate of decay and stagnation. Hitting workers would require somehow hitting the common lines they all have, such as making them allergic to money (Paper Dermatitis?), lose their capacity for inhibition (Induced Hyperactivity via ADHD?), lose their ability to do Math (Modified Dyslexia, or a Numbers Aphasia?), or even chemically induced Nihilism like they had in the movie Serenity. There however comes a point where just burning everything down would be more efficient than introducing new concepts into humanity or specifically targeting key demographics solely.
Also weird that you equate "Woke" with "Unemployed", would they leave the woke workers alive or kill them for having jobs, and if that's the case why not specify "unemployed" then? If there were no Woke Workers, then why do we have Unions?
As tech replaces everyone's jobs we aren't even going to know what "workers" look like in the future, lending to technosocialist values becoming the norm.
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