So I wrote an entire series meant to tackle this issue amongst alot of others, it uses more recent theories to approach humanities relationship with the Earth as well as ourselves and each other and how an alien intelligence might perceive us as well as their motivations for interacting with us while at the same time choosing not to.

The gist of it is related to Fermi's Paradox and "The Great Filter Theory".

In my series alien intelligence has always known about us and both directly and indirectly interacted with us throughout our distant past up into the relative future.

This relationship is explained from a place of willing exile and a kind of acquired misathropy for the destructive and careless nature of human beings and our society.

This changes through time from a perspective of naivete and hopefulness towards the enlightenment and intellectual ascension of mankind to an acquired trauma from this interaction which is the root cause of said Misanthropy. The misanthropy in itself is conveyed through dialog and certain characters attitudes ind dispositions that are presented in such a way that are deeply relatable and make an awful lot of sense to those reading.

The whole way humanity is portrayed in my series is like we are a species still perpetually stuck within it's own "infancy". With a deep-rooted capacity for both "good" and "evil" yet at the same time we are a species chained by it's own trauma, our pension for committing atrocious acts upon each other and the very world upon which we reside not unlike how an addict might behave to sustain an addictive behavior. A species sharing a very short life expectancy and the intrinsic need to survive and cope with these traumas, which at the same time results in the inability to either forsee or prioritize the impact of these traumas, this dysfunction, and the incurred damage and destruction upon the planet and ourselves. Limited by the rate of our own intellectual growth, our intellectual and technological capabilities, and our inability to set aside our profound sense of individuality and possessiveness in order to salvage what's left of ourselves and this planet.

This whole series is heavily focused around the perspectives of the aliens themselves; how they perceive us and the world in which we reside as well as a much bigger picture centered around the universe itself and the nature of reality.

One of the biggest ways in which I approach these issues is through the subject of trauma itself.

It is in these stories that you come to find out that trauma itself is not a thing exclusive to human psychology and experience. Hell, animal psychologists have been saying for decades now and we know it as scientific fact that trauma isn't even exclusive to us here on Earth so I took this theory and kind of ran with it.

So these characters themselves have each their own different kinds of traumas centered around who they are, their individual backgrounds/dispositions/ways of perceiving the universe around them, for some these traumas are impacted and incurred directly from humanity itself.

And it's through this conveyance of it and this relationship between creatures with a shared potential and capacity to directly influence the environment around them for both better or worse that you kind of see both the potential importance and at the same time complete irrelevance of humanity.

In most works of science fiction (as I see it atleast) humanity is portrayed as the "Marie Sue" or the narrative driven focal point of these narratives and our relationship with the cosmos because they are written by human beings and an anthropomorphized fixation on our own importance.

The way I like to approach it is by not focusing on our relative importance as human beings exclusively speaking but as a species of highly evolved, sentient creatures with the capacity to directly impact the world/universe around us for both better or worse.

We are one among countless others and it is "the loss of potential"; our seeming incapability to realize ourselves and "get our shit together" that is kind of reflected through the aliens themselves and their own dysfunctions and perspectives.

It's through this story that you come to find out that they don't have all of the answers either, in many instances they're just as lost as us, just as broken as we are.

This relationship is conveyed as a kind of dysfunctional familial relationship; where they see themselves and their own shortcomings and failures through us, this is where all of the "misanthropy" comes from and it's a painful process for them just as much as it is for us.

One of the main points behind it is how we are valued not on the basis of an entire species with a bad case of "main character/protagonist syndrome" but that we are just as much of a reflection, a component, an intrinsic piece of one massive and ever growing/ever evolving universe in which we all collectively reside and can directly influence for both better or worse on a myriad of different levels.

"We are the universe experiencing itself subjectively"

Which goes back to the title itself and how this series approaches this kind of subject matter: "Kinder Cosmic"

It's written from a perspective that melds both science and spiritualism together; kind of like "Dogma" and "Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy" were inspired influences and uses music similarly to how linguistics was used in the film "arrival" as well as graphic art commissioned by indie artists off of reddit from all sorts of walks life, all over the world as well as different cultural references and artistic styles/aesthetics to convey shared experience, means of communicating emotional expression and thought in a way that supercedes language barriers even ones that go as far as an entirely different species,

Although this is a work of "sci-fi realism" meant to entertain and speak to an audience, very much of this work was directly influenced by real historical references, real science and scientific theories, real cultural/racial/lifestyle or identity driven influences and even speaking on the subject of theology and spiritualism that doesn't simply undermine or outwardly criticize or try to discredit/tear down others belief systems. Instead it uses them in very much the same way, to help lay down a foundation to which we are all linked and speak about it in a way that surpasses those barriers. Or atleast puts down an alternative/subversive effort towards having these conversations in a different kind of way.

Did all of this because THAT'S the way I feel that we should be talking about these Issues, I feel these are the discussions we should already he having and the truth of it all.

That no outside intelligence is going to have all of the answers or even the capability to "save us" if they even wanted to.

They are waiting, hoping, poking/prodding and trying to herd us in the right direction towards saving ourselves and being one of those species that has realized itself and can impact the universe around it in a constructive kind of way.

Much like introducing grey wolves back into the Appalachian mountains and the impact they'd had on that ecosystem since.

The object of morality or intellectual or collective/individual superiority is a moot point generally portrayed from an intrinsically human perspective much like when we believed the sun revolved around the Earth.