A Hero

Ollie Firstwell was a remarkable child. When push came to shove he faced an incredible challenge and proved his prowess — which was not easy for an intimidated human-weakling. At school, after several beatings, he decided to lay down and just sink into hibernation mode. The bullies thought he went catatonic – it worked wonders. No one bothered him again until he met the hyper-dimensional Being named Zonkkk, a nasty critter who ate brains for breakfast. Zonkkk thought Ollie was really catatonic and that was especially tempting to the alien. But Ollie was only playing and when Zonkkk attacked, Ollie went into Super-charge mode and his brain caught fire with anti-alien rejection hormones. Zonkkk was decimated and Ollie was invited to join the Galactic Guardian Society (a secret organization of super heroes).

 

Alien looks at human psychology

The human is prone to gratuitous violence. Everything in human psychology is rigidly controlled by the instinct to survive, a leftover from the days when people lived in caves and hunted for large predators. What worked then no longer works and people are stuck in survival mode — killing and maiming one another because all outsiders are considered enemies. It is on TV and in ads. Humans need the excitement of vicarious violence, but the thrill needs increasing stimuli. War is the answer for all human problems, it seems. Armageddon seems to be what people seek.

 

Wherefore is there hope?

The current state of affairs must be judged from the polluted cesspool of human consciousness which is obviously biased and directed by self interest. The only logical conclusion is to depend on an outside force that is totally rational, without judgement or disabling emotional obsessions. Can we appeal to non-human sources of intelligence when the concept of intelligence is totally human in origin and definition. Even computers are tainted with human prejudices. The Alien is our only hope.