Earth, As Explained to Aliens

Can you imagine trying to explain our Reality to someone from another planet?

OK, we live on this planet, where 6 people own more wealth than 3.6 billion people, and they will do anything to maintain that wealth, including mass murder of living beings, including humans, and destruction of the ecosystem on which all life on Earth depends.

They own our governments and they also control a communication apparatus that beams through the air, to each individual, information that they want us to believe.

We all have to pretend to believe what they say, and we have to pretend that their employees are not liars, when they tell us lies, even though we also know that they are liars. (But not this time.)

If they tell us that 19 young Arabs shut down the entire national security and military apparatus of the most powerful country in the world, and disintegrated 3 massive skyscrapers, and also damaged the nerve center of the most powerful military in the world, we have to pretend to believe them.

If they tell us that the leader of an oil rich country is hoarding horrible weapons of mass destruction, even though inspectors can't find them, and he has plans to zoom across the Atlantic Ocean in speedboats, and throw those WMD onto our people living on the coasts, we have to pretend to believe them.

If they tell us that Russians poisoned people with the most powerful nerve agent ever invented, just because they are Evil like that (and it didn't actually kill anyone, including the guinea pigs), we have to pretend to believe them.

If they tell us that 13 trolls put memes on Facebook that overcame a $2 billion election, and 24/7 news coverage of that election, we have to pretend to believe them.

If anyone openly scoffs at such stories and says they are lies, then are not just batshit crazy (that goes without saying!) but they are disruptive to our social fabric and downright dangerous to innocent people, and must be stopped from saying such things where the minions can hear them, because it hurts their feelings to hear anything contrary to what the bosses tell them.

Personally, I hope that I never meet anyone from another planet, because it would be too damn embarrassing to try to explain this one to them.