The Human Psychologists | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story

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@scifistories1977 7 ай бұрын

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@SideKickStudios 8 ай бұрын

Lol. The aliens aren't wrong though.. Indeed we as a species do discuss meaningless crap like celebrity life choices more than things that actually matter, like economy, social system fixes etc etc.

@nin2494 8 ай бұрын

@@intetx It is speculated that the reason behind a lot of intratribal conversation, or, gossip- was meant to be a way to communicate about people a step of separation just far enough that they would be a neighbour, but a stranger. This of course would extend to the people the next town over, once civilisation had been established. And then the next city. And then the next country. Until finally we have entire cults and myths and stereotypes and stories about lands and their inhabitants for which the majority of people talking about will never meet nor have any business if they did meet. Inevitably, once the global community had been established, this would culminate in celebrity gossip- they are literally 'those celebrated' so of course they would be given undue attention in the same way that a neighbour's neighbour would, to the extent that a neighbour's neighbour is actually less exciting because... well... they're not famous. It is my belief that fame is probably a mutation of infamy, after all negativity bias keeps you alive, and that particular strain became viral once stories could travel the globe. Gossip was a way to keep us informed in a much less complex society between a people, but as society became societies and people became peoples, we did not evolve to understand the structures underlying vast macro changes, because we still used the same cerebral hardware that led us to think 'If I don't know someone, and I haven't heard goss about them, they are a strange danger' even though the few thousand that might have existed during the brink of our species' annihilation would pale to the 8 billion alive circa 2024. Economy is not interesting because economy was something we invented, gossip or its prototype was something the first human was probably born into. We were built to talk about people, because maximum sociality is really the backbone of a sapient species, that's what produces the emergent properties of industriousness, of animal husbandry, of domestication, of agriculture, of expansion, of colonialism, and finally of a divided unified people that rose from a middling level in the food web to the point that we could bring a significant chunk of the biosphere to extinction, and preserve the parts we haven't. Those are all *emergent*, and gossip was one of the the things that made it emerge- even if the strain of gossip we have is alike to a plague... the germ or virus responsible wishes to reproduce in its host, thus infection is the best way- however, what happens when the host dies? It dies. A plague is when those two factors (high infection rate + death rate) become the worst cocktail for both the plague and its patients. A plague is like gossip, it finds itself in a strange new world posing dangers and creating problems where it would've been relatively harmless, even beneficial, in its original habitat. There is no germ or virus that wants to kill, it just finds itself in a human rather than a cow or bat. There is no gossip that wants to lie, it just found connected to a web cast so wide it's natural the holes would be easy to walk through. But we still treat it like it's impassable, like we could simply talk to the person we're talking about and get the real story. We aren't. And so a plague kills, and gossip lies, and all the other interesting bits that the strange minds of you and I find so captivating are second fiddle for the ancient music and mantras of traditions, whose function are as easily lost as it is to play them. Eceonomy, politics, etc. are social creature's children, but the creature's cradle is gossip.

@Terran.Marine.2 8 ай бұрын

Unnatural relations with a floodlight 😅

@saintsefo4763 6 ай бұрын

😂 You made light of his predicament.

@Terran.Marine.2 6 ай бұрын

@@saintsefo4763 Wyoming Knot?

@saintsefo4763 6 ай бұрын

@@Terran.Marine.2 🤣🤣🤣

@vanguard9067 8 ай бұрын

“A bit like going to Hawaii” Is brilliant! Have a nice Sunday.

@scifistories1977 8 ай бұрын

You're amazing! Thank you for your super thanks! It's greatly appreciated.

@vanguard9067 8 ай бұрын

@@scifistories1977 I think your story is definitely one of the more clever ones out there. Keep up the good imagination and the accurate, natural writing.

@pheonixblue01 8 ай бұрын

I was not expecting that first question hahahaha

@arcdecibel9986 8 ай бұрын

My question would have been "How did you get here without us detecting you?" There ain't no stealth in space, and any drive that could theoretically work should have been seen from a long way off.