(urth) lupine intention

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> As I said before, even if we adopt your principle, I think that's a matter
> of taste.  What's creepier--that there are aliens on a planet who
> successfully imitate humans, or that there are only humans on a planet but
> some of them believe that the other people there are aliens, and we readers
> have been tricked into accepting insanity as reality?  Or that all the
> sentient beings on the planet are aliens fooling each other, or that there
> are humans there accepting aliens as humans?

And let us not forget: on an alien planet humans _are_ the aliens. I
think that's a theme lurking in the background, amongst the
colonial/postcolonial concepts.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes