Before you read this:

1. No, I’m not a conspiracy nut-job.

2. Yes, there has been a lot of media attention recently surrounding aliens.

3. My sources are MIT and Harvard physicists studying this phenomenon, investigative journalists and evidence-based documentaries, books, and podcasts not drawing wide conclusions but looking solely at facts and irrefutable evidence.

Let’s say an alien mothership did appear above the White House lawn. Let’s say they were benevolent beings looking only to help us build a better civilization for humanity as a whole. Let’s say they weren’t little-green-men, but formidable looking creatures with tall statures and abilities which far exceed our own. Let’s say they had highly advanced technology that made ours look like we were still back in the stone age.

All things considered, what we know about humans is that we are a bewildered species looking for the most dominant Alpha to lead the way. 

If you examine our own political systems, in fact, you’ll notice that this is actually how the human-herd has organized itself. We select one elected (sometimes forced) leader to help govern and make overarching decisions about our way of life.

The inherent problem to this system is that the human we select to lead us is inevitably no better or worse than us—they’re still “only human” after all.

Now, consider the ideas I brought up at the start of this. If a being appeared that was benevolent, had humanity’s best interest in mind, was formidable with abilities that far exceeded our own, and brought forth technology that would make our current technology look like a joke, would we be more inclined to be led by a human (like us) or a god (something greater than ourselves)?

Since the beginning of time, humans have looked up at the stars for god-like creatures to come down and save us from our suffering; to bring about answers where we perceive there to be none and to help us evolve into the next stage of who we might become.

If you look deep into the history of most religions, you’ll notice that there are notions of beings which came from the heavens (read: outer space) to pass knowledge down to us. There are even those alien-conspiracy theorists out there who believe that beings from above (known as the Anunnaki*) came down to help build up the human race, effectively leading the Ancient Egyptians and teaching them how to construct magnificent structures like the pyramids.

Granted, this is a pretty tall tale, I’ll admit, but if we look at it like a case study for human behaviour and the past serving as a predictor for our future, does it really seem unlikely that we’d fall into this same herd-like pattern and inevitably revoke our own “human” leaders in favour of more god-like, “alien” ones?

The human animal is a bewildered species looking for the most dominant Alpha to lead the way, and what greater Alpha is there than one that isn’t even one of us?

If the Anunnaki were real and did lead the Ancient Egyptians while also teaching them about new technologies, who’s to say they didn’t end up retreating afterward in order to give us back our own sovereignty as a species?

Popularized in Star Trek’s Prime Directive*, wouldn’t the aliens inevitably fid it more beneficial to not interfere with another civilization, especially if that civilization is below a certain threshold of technological, scientific and cultural development to their own?

All things considered, if one doesn’t end up following the Prime Directive, they just might end up changing the trajectory of a lesser-than species for the worse instead of the better, while also causing undue aggravation to themselves as the pressures of leadership become untenable and their duty of care gets pushed to the extreme.

-keep looking up.