IF ALIENS CAME TO EARTH

It has been said that when or if aliens come to Earth, they will either be smarter or dumber than us. If they find us first, they will presumably be smarter than us as they managed to not only find but land on our planet, and we can't even send people past our moon. So the question arises: how can they be smarter than us? On the surface, it seems weird, as we humans have gotten used to being the smartest. The answer lies not in IQ but standards. Let's take a chimp, for example. The smartest chimp has a cerebral capacity equivalent to that of a human baby. So according to chimp standards, that chimp is like Einstein, but to us, he is at the same level as somebody's son who just started kindergarten. In the same way, if the said aliens came and looked at every human, they would pick out Stephen Hawking, and he would be at the same level as an alien toddler because he can do astrophysics in his head.

But if aliens ever came to Earth, to them there would be no intelligent life, because when we look at aliens, we never look at them as a country or what region they are from—we don't know what country or region they are from, or even if the concept of a country or region, race, or religion exists on their world. But when we look at us humans as a species, we suck at everything. The aliens will come and look at a world where 90% of humans inhabit only 10% of the land, and yet there are people who don't have a home and are broke.

Which brings us to another thing: money. How stupid is money? One day people were living together in peace, fending for each other and caring for them, and now you can't even quench your thirst if you don't have 20 rupees on you. Then there is the concept of government, which is necessary to maintain law and order—which it often fails at miserably. There is also democracy, which started as a government by the people, for the people, of the people, but has devolved into a government of the people, by the people, screw the people, we want all the power for ourselves to satisfy our egos the size of cathedrals. How hard is it to do the job you signed up for? It's in the name—you are a public servant, not a public master. But people don't realize that because of vanity—and that is why it's the devil's favorite sin.

We start wars with each other where we kill each other, and ironically, sometimes wars happen because someone was killed, like World War 1 or the war in Israel. The best solutions we have for violence are more violence or turning the other cheek—both equally bad. We enslave people just for having a different skin color. People kill people just because they don't believe in the same invisible entity they believe in. And yes, I am talking about religion, which has been one of the leading causes of death in history. Why can't we just agree to disagree, pick our superstition, sit back, and work for the betterment of the planet, like helping the poor or feeding the hungry? We even kill people just because we don't like what they say. People say we are living in the best times, but depression and mental illness cases are the highest they've ever been. Is this really the best we can do?

So the bottom line is, if aliens were real and they came to Earth and word spread of our planet and how we do things, we would be the laughing stock of the galaxy. And no, aliens would not find any intelligent life on Earth.