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.
@pieist Let's hope they're not just high-tech conquistadors, if ever they come here.
@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*
