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As he chronicles one tenacious man’s fight to survive after a nuclear holocaust decimates life on Earth, a dedicated and determined alien observer must decide whether to obey or defy orders to terminate humanity.
IOW: they are engaged in a Pygmalion project -- trying to create a species in the image of their own ideal..., or similar... or at least good enough. Well, that seems to me that their objective reflects a character flaw, hubris, hamartia on a global and historic scale! And after millions of years ofRead more
IOW: they are engaged in a Pygmalion project — trying to create a species in the image of their own ideal…, or similar… or at least good enough.
Well, that seems to me that their objective reflects a character flaw, hubris, hamartia on a global and historic scale! And after millions of years of stupendous failure, they’re still in denial, still haven’t learned better.
It seems to me that what the aliens need to learn from their experiment is to stop tinkering with evolution, stop trying to create their image-ideal. They need to just let go, accept and respect homo sapiens for what we are — and aren’t. They need to step back into their own solar system and let us work out our own destiny instead of trying to make us live up to their expectations.
So it seems to me that a doable plot line might be that the aliens want to pull the plug on the experiment by pulling the plug on homo sapiens, maybe pulling the plug on all life on earth. And the objective goal for the main character is to persuade them not to pull the plug.
Not just persuade them not to pull the plug, the objective goal might be to to convince them to let go, let humans live, let evolution happen.
Or better yet, the MC could discover a fatal flaw in the design of their experiment that if exploited would enable humans to (finally) win their freedom, autonomy to work out their own density without meddling and tinkering from these “benign” but narcissistic aliens.
fwiw
See lessAs he chronicles one tenacious man’s fight to survive after a nuclear holocaust decimates life on Earth, a dedicated and determined alien observer must decide whether to obey or defy orders to terminate humanity.
Another option: they've run out funding to continue the experiment. :-) Seriously, I think you have an interesting concept; otherwise I wouldn't keep posting. But implicit in your theme seems to be a lack of faith in homo sapiens to ever get their [expletive] deleted together. Which is an arguable pRead more
Another option: they’ve run out funding to continue the experiment. 🙂
Seriously, I think you have an interesting concept; otherwise I wouldn’t keep posting. But implicit in your theme seems to be a lack of faith in homo sapiens to ever get their [expletive] deleted together. Which is an arguable proposition, but is it an entertaining one? Will it sell tickets?
What is the alien stake in the experiment? What do they stand to gain or lose?
What motivates human experimentation with rats? Boredom, we’ve got nothing better to do? Mere sadism and nothing else?
We experiment with rats in order to benefit our own species. To learn more about ourselves. To test drugs on rats in order to discover if the drugs will cure our maladies (like cancer) and if the drug has no deleterious side effects.
IOW: we, as a species, have a stake in the experiments. We stand to gain or lose something. So, to repeat, what is the alien stakes in their experiment on humans? What are they hoping to get out of experimenting with us that will benefit them?
See lessAs he chronicles one tenacious man’s fight to survive after a nuclear holocaust decimates life on Earth, a dedicated and determined alien observer must decide whether to obey or defy orders to terminate humanity.
>>trying to get the results they want So the experiment has failed to prove whatever it was trying to prove? I'm not an alien -- although some people wonder about my humanity -- but I know something about statistics and I never forgotten what my professor said: one data point does not a statistic maRead more
>>trying to get the results they want
So the experiment has failed to prove whatever it was trying to prove?
I’m not an alien — although some people wonder about my humanity — but I know something about statistics and I never forgotten what my professor said: one data point does not a statistic make. One data point proves or disproves nothing.
Notwithstanding, your premise seems to have the aliens throwing out billions of data points — the overwhelming proof of a failed experiment as evidenced by the aggregate total of human history, Instead they are going to assess success or failure on the basis of a single data point – whether one man can rise above his flaws (despite the fact that billions of data points haven’t).
It all comes down one roll of one die. If the aliens are so smart and so powerful as to manipulate human history for 100k years, how could they so irrational, so illogical, so utterly stupid as to throw out billions of data points? Why would they do that?
Sorry, the thematic logic of your premise just doesn’t add up for me. Others with advanced degrees in calculus and quantum physics may see it differently.
fwiw.
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