Quote Originally Posted by WyrreJ
If ET shows up, he's going to be enemy #1 whether he wants to or not.

It will probably enough to get most of the world to stop fighting with itself and unite against a common enemy. But it will also probably mean the descent of the entire world into a global military-fascist society the likes of which we have not seen before.

Especially if he looks funny - just look how easy it is to demonize regular humans, if ET is some ugly looking freak the power-grabbers will be calling him Lucifer on talk-radio within days.

The only chance the planet has of surviving a contact with ET is if he looks like an angel. A glowing, golden-skinned, flying, feather-winged angel. Even that may not be enough, the really smart power-grabbers will just spin ET as Lucifier before the fall.
Yeah I could see that happening, society as a whole seems to be so scared of what it doesn't understand and typically has an unwillingness to try to see others perspectives that some would rather pull the trigger or detonate a bomb than to actually put forth some effort to try and understand each other. Poor Et he is so screwed. Maybe we should ask the presidential nominees what they would do if ET did show up? That could be the new 3rd party Rep, Dem, and ETlovers..... or maybe not at all.....