Intelligent Life ?

[redlotus51]

It is really sad that we project our current level of culture and our cultural norms on to others. Just because US imperialism is aggressive and bent on controlling all the resources, labor and markets of the world it can... doesn't mean truly intelligent life would be that way.

In fact there are many arguments that the only way interstellar space flight could be obtained would be through a long term stable culture requiring peaceful social relations among their peoples that could amass a great deal of resources.

In other words societies just the opposite of those of the history of human kind of class domination. In short, a post capitalist society based on abundance that Marx called Socialist and then later a free association of people called Communism or anarchy.

The reason Native Americans were decimated was unfortunately they were not contacted by such a truly intelligent society, but by self righteous Calvinists that thought if you can take it, you should get it, and if you lost out it was because obviously you were not in God's favor. We now practice the modern equivalent of this, the capitalist ethic.

By definition I would say our current way of operating in the world could not be defined as intelligent.