Why are we behaving so badly?
With 20:20 vision, what can we see more clearly?*

Have you ever been in conversations about how an alien invasion might save us? How, faced with a common enemy, we would band together as one humanity to save our species from destruction? I was often in these conversations about 15–20 years ago, especially with young people, but they seem to have disappeared now, replaced with more troubling questions about our self-destructive path.

I want to revive this question because it’s such a good lens to bring things into focus: How do you think we humans would behave if the aliens invaded planet Earth today? Would we band together, pool…