Chapter 1. Looking Through Alien Eyes
There may be only two kinds of intelligent life-forms who do not suffer from educated incapacity—aliens from another planet and children.
About 30 years ago, an animated film from Canada showed two aliens who had been sent to Earth to observe it and report back on it to their native planet. After two weeks, the aliens concluded that Earth was inhabited by four-wheeled vehicles called automobiles, each of which owned at least one two-legged slave called a human. Every morning a loud noise went off to wake the human so that he could take the automobile to a social club (parking lot), where the auto hung out all day with other cars while the human went into a building to work to support it. This cartoon was an ...
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