New "alien invasion" movie is clearly a metaphor about gentrification & race
"LANDSCAPE WITH INVISIBLE HAND" Landscape With Invisible Hand centers on a Black American teenager scraping by on an Earth now run by an alien race known as Vuvv. While those living in a literally elevated version of gated communities relish innovations and wealth, those below ...are scraping by as millions of jobs are made obsolete by Vuvv technology."
https://mashable.com/article/landscape-with-invisible-hand-review?taid=63dcd41f9511e10001d59cec
@JohnShirley2023 I no longer imagine that any alien race would subjugate us for natural resources or slave labor -- one is ubiquitious in the universe and the other is superfluous if you have the kind of technology that would enable them to get here.
But I wonder if a planet that is so constructed as to maintain a fairly stable goldilocks climate and ecosystem for billions of years might be uncommon enough to be coveted. And whether aliens capable of appreciating that might be better stewards of it than we are.
@JohnShirley2023 There are definitely aspects of human culture it would be bad if they extirpated. Even if people responsible for them were typically given -- to put it mildly -- no honour in their own time.
@pieist to me ETs provide a metaphorical stand-in for my anger at the human race: Eg this short piece: "Extraterrestrials Decide if the Dominant Species of Inhabited Planet 38790 Should be Exterminated for Extreme Vileness
by John Shirley" https://freezineoffantasyandsciencefiction.blogspot.com/2021/09/extraterrestrials-decide-if-dominant.html
@JohnShirley2023 I have what I hope is a healthy scepticism of Noble Savage narratives, but in my own ignorant lay way have encountered a lot of credible --popularized -- anthrpological studies to suggest that primitive cultures don't by any means inevitably share the vices and blind spots that the current hegemonic one has.
@JohnShirley2023 (Though in a lot of cases they had others of an occasionally blood-freezing nature.)
@pieist "Schnozz requires that you sever and eat your own testicles, so that you live a live of cool objectivity. Also, we dont' want you to reproduce"
@JohnShirley2023 I hear and long to obey O destroyer of falsity, but if i don't have kids, who's going to pose with me holding automatic weapons for our annual family postcard?
@pieist If they were conquistador like they would, among other things, insist we follow their religion. "You will worship SCHNOZZ THE GLORIOUS with all your heart, and you will memorize the tale of how the Feel Slug freed the Skleep from the dominion of the Evil Choice Bringer"
@JohnShirley2023 .... hey... tell me more, truthbringer! *Sits crosslegged with an expression of beatific receptivity*
@pieist Let's hope they're not just high-tech conquistadors, if ever they come here.