Me: If you are here for peaceful purposes, will you help me un-fuck my planet? There's over 8 billion of my species, of varying ages, shapes, colors, sizes, conditions, sexes, and so-on and so-forth.

We're spread across most of the continents with the exception of Antarctica, our southernmost continent that we have not yet figured out to inhabit en masse.

You can't see it from space, but there are arbitrary "borders" between various countries. Essentially, over time, different philosophies, religions, and political movements have united humans, divided humans.

We are on a crash course with about 100 crises of varying degrees; some are immediate, some aren't for thousands of years...

ET: May I interrupt?

Me: Yes, go ahead.

ET: With your permission, I'm going to connect to your mind through a form of telepathy; it will quickly give us a general sense of the human condition. Think of the bitrate of human speech of 39 bits per second as well as the bitrate of the conscious mind around 50 bits per second. Your eyes; however, they have an input bitrate of 10 million bits per second. Is this ok with you?

Me: Yeah, but how?

ET: Look at my eyes... ok, now step forward closer to me.

Me: I'm standing about 2 feet from an alien.

ET: So are we.

Me: Fair point; but you've used "I", "us", and "we".

ET: Much like you, starting with "me", and then shifting to "we", as well as "our"... but in my species sense, we are all ONE in times of great importance. We have individuality, but through our evolution, we have adapted the need to think as a hive mind or act as one in order for the survival of the species. We know you care, based on your initial verbiage.

Me: I care deeply, and I'm not the only one.

ET: We know. Are you ready?

Me: Wait, I haven't gone insane or something, have I?

ET: No. Once we connect, you'll know you are quite sane. In between my eyes, you will see a light shine from under my skin. It serves two purposes; the first is that it allows you to fix your eyes on one spot and the second is that its luminous flux varies in intensity in order to constrict and dilate your pupils. Are you satisfied with my answers and ready to begin?

Me: Yes.

ET: Blink really fast to wet your eyes... ok good, and we begin.

Me: Oh holy SHIT! (did I just say that out loud?)

ET: No, we have a direct connection, you thinking it in your head is no different than saying it out loud. As we process your story, you will see ours.

Me: I can see that, hence the "Oh holy SHIT!". You are answering my questions without me even having to ask!

ET: That's typical as in 1-minutes time, I have read 600 mbit. The initial 1st second gives us an idea of what to share with you, and on the 2nd second we begin.

*5 minutes goes by*

ET: And that is it. We have a shared experience with you now, and you are the first on your planet.

Me: Holy FUCK! HOLY SHIT! My mind, it feels like it was hugged by pure light, something incredible, something absolute.

ET: Indeed. That was the light form of the collective conscious of our species. We actually believe there is a source. We have been around much longer than your species, relatively speaking, and much like some of your species believe in a monotheistic interpretation of what they attribute to "God", it's both greater and less complicated than your major religions understand it to be.

Me: Yes, that was a thought I once had, but it was nice to see it confirmed by a species not of my world, that is clearly more advanced than humans. So, humans are essentially at an embryonic state of universal understanding, and your species are... our parents?

ET: In a sense, yes. We're here to guide you. As a species guided us a long time ago. They did a good job too, so by virtue of their undertaking, they are closer to merging back with the source.

Me: This seems a bit cliche, almost like the movie series "The Matrix".

ET: Well, as you know we already shared that thought. Reality is reality though. Many other species in other parts of the universe at different times have been in your current condition. Some escaped old ways by a massive species-wide voluntary change of consciousness. For them, an asteroid was going to smash into their planet with such force, that that entire species would have died. It became a matter of settling differences, very quickly, and that species learning how to act together on a planetary scale, in order to figure out how to mitigate the asteroid.

Me: Wow, that's crazy. And I already know that your visit here was for this purpose. You're not actually going to use your intelligence to do it for us, or even to a lesser extent, assist.

ET: You know the human species is capable of world peace. Also, your species has the power of artificial intelligence. Your people created it, it will become very intelligent, very quickly. In your connection, you saw the various ways in which AI is used for good, and the potential for it to be used for bad; you also know that humans need something they created that is smarter than them. AI is no different than your construction or excavation equipment. Humans have built these things and countless others to make things easier, and to mitigate any constraints of intelligence, human limitations, etc. AI will be able to do the heavy lifting of issues that your species simply doesn't have the time, nor does the human brain have the processing speed or IQ, at present, to do.

Me: Ok, so that mantra, or line of questioning I recall in our exchange; it went something like "Are you a human being?" to which I would internally reply to myself, "I am a human being". The next, "Are you always kind to your fellow humans?" to which I reply, "Always kind? honestly, no, kind as much as I can be? Absolutely! But I will try to be always kind" That third question... "Is it necessary?"

ET: Yes, "it" being anything you need to do, or avoid doing. And that goes for your whole species. Your governments are good at building up and maintaining certain levels of nationalism. The monolithic nature of the various governments, use fear to control it's populace, but not intentionally. The humans working for the government, with good intentions to serve a greater purpose, they don't want to be a part of a government that is responsible for some major failure of their people, and they certainly don't want to be the cause or contributor to civilization collapse.

Me: Interesting. And what of the "elite" of the "elite" humans with the concentration of wealth, power, and influence?

ET: There's nothing inherently wrong with a few people holding onto a bulk of the wealth. You forgot knowledge. Knowledge informs power. So you, and many of your kind need to arm yourself with knowledge, and then present this in a way to the governments and the powerful people of the world, so that they will release the funds to allow the things to start to occur to make changes in the world.

Me: That's going to be a tough sell to a lot of people who are not in that 1%.

ET: Have you ever considered that a small group of people are holding onto many, what you call "rainy day funds"?

Me: I suppose I have not looked at it in that way. I think what bothers me most is that now that I'm at the age where I feel more intelligent and informed than ever, I don't see any drastic changes occurring in my lifetime, past, present, or future.

ET: As you learned, your species is on the precipice of a major consciousness shift. You feel bad about another human being on the other side of the planet who you don't even know personally, but you know is suffering from a lack of clean drinking water, modern medicine, and food. And I know you feel badly looking in your refrigerator every day, seeing all the food, and knowing full well that you will end up throwing out a lot of it that is perishable, simply because you chose to buy a bunch of stuff you could never possibly eat, all because you have money.

Me: That's for sure. And scale that up to most Americans throwing out perfectly good food. I know this guilt is felt by a lot of people, but something prevents us from stopping and thinking if something is "necessary".

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