[alex201]

I buy the emotional appeal of “please let the UFO show up and dissolve all our problems.” But even if non human intelligence is real (it’s not impossible), turning that into “doom” is mostly a choice: it offloads agency and absolves us from the seat.

To me 'boredom' is the sneakier driver :) A lot of “I want it to be aliens” reads less like evidence-following and more like novelty-hunger: reality feels stale, so we reach for a plot twist big enough to make everything mean something again. That impulse is exciting, but it’s also how you end up treating catastrophe (or salvation) as entertainment instead of responsibility.

The world is boring, and you are responsible. Live with it.