Why is it that the most common discourse on us humans and the other species in our galaxy that we're inherently just dumber than them?

"In science fiction aliens are either monsters or just way more advanced. There's not a whole lot of invading aliens that are just, kinda, stupid." - Freeman's Mind

So this is something I've seen alot that I just genuinely don't fully understand the thought process behind. Typically this comes from conversations involving nihilistic misanthropes, which are for some reason pretty common in alien discussion. Humans aren't as intelligent as aliens. We're dumb and they think we're idiots.

What the fuck does that mean? Humans aren't intelligent? In what ways? The word "intelligence" is a pretty broad thing that's rather hard to scale for an ENTIRE race. Is it emotional intelligence? Tactical intelligent? What type of intelligence are we lacking in so highly that alien races have apparently conquered.

To be intelligent does not require having an all knowing nature. One can still be flawed in one area of knowledge without being dumb. I am extremely bad at mathematics but that hardly makes me an idiot and if you say so I will decapitate your family.

We aren't so dumb that we cannot possibly comprehend aliens or their technologies. They're not Lovecraftian monsters that make men kill themselves just from the knowledge of their existence. They're living beings just like us and while we don't know what makes their technologies run it's not like we can't learn or atleast could understand it if were explained to us. Infact I'd argue that we are probably just as smart as them we just haven't made the same discoveries as they have yet or physically can't.

I mean let's look at humanities achievements for such an inferior species. We split the fucking atom, we completed the human genome project 18 years ago, we can clone animals, and have developed instantaneous world wide connections and have as much understanding of our own universe than any species bound to only it's home planet should. These aren't common feats that anyone can pull off. I think we'd know if dolphins had did it first.

And really what about the aliens in question through all of this? They aren't a collective hivemind people and I really doubt that the average alien is so far ahead of our people that it's not comparable. What could they possibly do that we don't? Intelligence doesn't mean anything for an alien when I could probably slight of hand pick pocket it just as easy as a human.

What you're really telling me no alien ever died because it tried to take a selfie with a space grizzly bear and got mauled viciously? Not even once?

Submitted December 15, 2021 at 12:32AM by TheFakeSlimShady123 https://ift.tt/3EYbb4C