HOW DO I KNOW?
BECAUSE I - AM ONE.
The planet I came from exists in a time warp, in another space-time continuum, with a world population of just over two billion people.
Our citizens adjusted to the end of a massive world war. The economy was returning, but prices for
necessities were still high. A quart of
milk costs twenty-five cents, a loaf of bread is fifteen cents, and gas is
almost a quarter a gallon.
Men controlled our world – white men.
As directed by the Bible, men were the head of the family and women were mothers and housewives. Men smoke and drink alcohol for relaxation. Male life expectancy was nearly sixty years. Unlike your world men didn't wear shorts and sneakers, men wore long pants and leather shoes; feet tend to sweat in leather shoes leaving men with stinky feet. There were numerous products available for foot odor.
Transportation for us was train, bus, or automobile. Automobiles require constant tune-ups and were difficult to start in the winter. Flat tires and blowouts were common, but everyone who drove was proficient in changing a tire.
Our world had no television and family entertainment was centered around radios. We could listened to news, mysteries, comedies, and even children’s programs.
Air
conditioning didn't exist. We had fans to cool us, and in summertime
we slept with our windows open. At
night, in the summer, we sat on our front porch and spoke to our neighbors as
they strolled by.
Technology was advancing. We had commercial air for those who could afford it, and our planes could fly over one hundred miles per hour and to almost ten thousand feet without oxygen.
The military was experimenting with rockets and there was talk of sending man to the moon. It concerned me that a military project developed an atomic bomb that killed two hundred and fifty thousand civilians
That was the world of my childhood. Now I find myself in your world. I have been transported through a wormhole. through time and space. It seems to have happened very fast.
Over eight billion people populate your world, and the number increases exponentially.
The technology of this new world is mind-blowing, and I struggle to keep up,
Otherwise, this world is as fucked-up as the one I inhabited.
Instead of overt racial animosity, there is political animosity;
the natural environment is much worse, your air is bad, your water is polluted, and few unspoiled wilderness areas still exist;
hunger, war, and poverty are tolerated by your government and citizens;
there is a massive financial gap between the haves and have-nots;
the availability of guns has turned your country into a war zone, where even children are not safe in schools;
extreme fundamentalist religious cults
still influence public discourse; ignorance still abides.
The human
beings of my world seeded your world. Though
quantum leaps in technology would have you perceived as an advanced
civilization in my world, your humanity has not changed. You still share 98 percent of your DNA with lower
primates, which inserts its dominance.
Yes. I am an
alien from another world. Everyone who
looks at me can tell that I am an alien, and identify others just like me.
By the way,
flying saucers don’t exist.
the
Ol’Buzzard
