← Back to lettersMen of the solidified star Earth: It is our plea that you do not see in this letter an exhortative manifesto nor a coded range of advice. You must not label it as a manifesto since we lack the authority to disseminate any doctrine. We do not belong to the human group of Earth, since we come from an alienogeotopological planetary structure (Ummo according to the intelligible phonetic expression in your language) and although this is not a sufficient obstacle to claim to define ourselves, we have not officially presented ourselves before you. We are a small group of mentally developed beings, grafted into your social environment, studying the culture of the terrestrial social network, but we remain in strict anonymity. This attitude obviously removes any form of authority for us to claim to address you in a doctrinal manner. But although you, Men, would kindly wish to grant us an attestation of genuine authority, without our identification being verifiable (a position that, although welcomed by us with sympathy, we do not deem intelligent or scientifically objective), this letter should never be qualified under the epithet of "advisory." If you observe the deductive conclusions, they are evaluated under our very particular perspective of our idiosyncrasy, derived from our own ideological systematic.
Our culture and social structure are not exportable. They cannot be imitated without causing disturbances that can sometimes be more serious than those we wish to correct. However, it is also inevitable that we, due to some very secret data in our possession, will form a value judgment about the structures of Earth, we will express our critical judgment, which we do not wish to be hurtful, and we will venture some predictions that will be all the more appropriate the less they deviate from your current tendencies, regarding the processes we observe within terrestrial society. This is why the present correspondence could be titled HOW WE, THE BEINGS FROM UMMO, SEE THE CURRENT SITUATION OF THE EARTH'S SOCIAL NETWORK. Our letter is a very brief summary of the report submitted to the UMMOAELEWEE by our brothers, with the signature for inclusion in the memories of the SAnmooaiubaa (a complex of calculators and information processors installed on our cold celestial body) of: (S104-f1) The independent paragraphs indicated in quotation marks are a literal transcription, reproduced as faithfully as possible from the original report. This precision of the version in language familiar to you is understood with the grammatical and semantic additions that make it intelligible, since our texts are extremely synthetic, devoid of the syntactic morphology familiar to you, which makes their decoding very complicated without prior addition of verbal forms, adjectives, etc. The rest of the paragraphs have been developed to make the context more understandable, keeping in mind that the readers of this document are yourselves and not our specialists. For understandable reasons, we will practically omit 97.2 out of 144 (N.B.: 67.5%) of the graphs and images that accompanied the original. The submitted report contains 4,352,038 digits in a base twelve system (referring to oral information) and 20,782,232.1013 digits in binary base referring to graphic information. The two versions of this exposition: English and Spanish, are on the other hand (N.B.: This part has been handwritten in an Earthly script, as it appears that this section was cut off during photocopying) different. The English text has a more universal character (understood as the terrestrial acceptance), while the Spanish copy is more attentive to facts concerning Europe, although we have included references to the United States of North America and the People's Republic of China. Offering you a complete transcription of the REPORT submitted to Ummo, beyond the extension we indicated, would have required a prior resolution of two other issues: Addressing it to the responsible bodies of the States of Earth, which automatically implied making ourselves officially known. Revealing the nature of the sources and the content of statistical documents and data we qualify as very confidential. On the other hand, we find it unfair not to at least offer you concisely an excerpt of our current judgments. By making you custodians of this version, although it is not disclosed, we fulfill this moral compromise. HOW WE SEE THE CURRENT SITUATION OF THE EARTH'S SOCIAL NETWORK may also encourage your brother reader to interpret that the original report was limited to describing situations of economic, religious, political, scientific, technological, ideological, etc. relevance. This is not the case: in fact, the most interesting studies refer to a prognostics in all these fields, that is to say, a prospective analysis of the immediate future (twenty-eight years) (N.B.: this text was written in 1972, which leads us to the year 2000. A similar remark was indeed handwritten in the Earthly script on the copy of the original we possess, with the text "twenty-eight years" surrounded) although in this version that we have provided to you many of the most important aspects and quantitative data of the main document have been omitted. We have pointed out at the beginning of this presentation letter that we renounce any paternalistic attitude towards you. We always limit ourselves to informing while being careful to avoid as much as possible expressions that could carry exhortative or advisory characteristics inserted within a defined ideological framework (ours) since the ideas of our Ummo brothers are not exportable to this Social Network that has welcomed us. Naturally, there is inevitably a divorce between the realm of our desires and the level of practice when there is an information flow. We do not reveal anything new when we affirm that despite our deliberate intentions not to allow ideological grafts, the very act of handing over to men, scattered across many nations of the Earth, these mysterious letters (mysterious due to your inability to verify their accuracy) induces a micro-alteration in the psychological variables of your brothers. This is one of the explanations for our attitude of leaving many of our reports unfinished. In this way, we further attenuate the probability that they will be used to create larval states of identification with our ideas, which could lead to the formation of ideological groups that would be tempted to mythify us and thoughtlessly follow our own models of thought. Ours is not, of course, a constellation of hermetic ideas. Our thought is not esoteric; on the contrary, it is based on very rational foundations and even more mature than yours. It is not in vain that our civilization is, chronologically speaking, older than that of the Earth. The illusion of hermeticism therefore arises from our deliberate guidelines of censorship. But we do not believe we are violating these protective barriers that we have imposed on ourselves if we generically advise you to focus on the study of the following disciplines: Prognosiology (prospective study of humanity on Earth), Sociology, Neurophysiology, Theology, Molecular Biology, Barostatics (study of high pressures), Operational Research, Electronics, Semantics, which will be the gnostic branches that will have the greatest impact on the future development of the terrestrial Social Network. HOW WE, THE BEINGS FROM UMMO, SEE THE CURRENT SITUATION OF THE EARTH SOCIAL NETWORK (The term "current" refers to the present state of development of the Social Network and your Culture. A state that we have assessed for approximately the next twenty-eight years from the interval ± 3 Uiw - in the original, the dating refers to times measured on Ummo - with correction for Earth equivalent to 5:12 PM G.M.T., on November 23, 1972, the date on which the original report was sent from Ummo.) The men of the Earth are today struggling in a state of anxiety or distress, and in the hope of a future less burdened by shadows. "You already know, brothers, thanks to our programmed periodic reports (S104-f2) how the diversification of nationalities and ideologies makes it more difficult to homogenize objective information that reflects the true feelings of the human beings from this solid Star. We are adding an auxiliary report that contains data about the different ethnic groups within the distinct state structures that compose the political mosaic of the Earth." The development of a Social Network is conditioned by such a multitude of variables that at first analytical glance it seems almost impossible to elaborate a model that satisfies the future conditions of evolution. A single Oemmii (human) endowed with the freedom of decision can profoundly alter any prognostic prognosiological prediction formulated patiently based on the study of trends and on the best-chosen scientific data. Stalin, Hitler, Truman, and Churchill among many others, have modified the fate of the social Network by their decisions, more powerfully than other conditions of a biological, economic, technological, or psychosocial type. Any impartial analysis must therefore be subordinated to the future alterations sporadically provoked by these leaders of the sociopolitical balance. However, in recent years, a new peculiarity has emerged that has also marked the end of the dominance of individualities over the social base in our history. We are beginning to observe on Earth that the degree of influence of its leaders, ideologues, or scientists is losing its effectiveness on bio-psychosocial evolution, faced with much stronger conditions. Thus, we have been able to see that in the current Indochinese conflict, in which a small nation is heroically fighting against a more powerful nation, the United States of North America, being aided only in economic forms and military equipment by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, inflicting defeat after defeat. President Nixon's decision to end it through the appearance of a peace treaty constitutes the first rout in many years and faces a series of objective obstacles placed by the economic-military structure of this great nation. And yet, the means of dissemination across the planet directly accuse him of being personally responsible for perpetuating this war. In the impossibility of listing all the variables involved in evolution, we will group them (only those with an incidence index greater than 0.00025) into constellations of factors, which we would classify as follows: PSYCHOSOCIAL TENDENCIES TOWARDS SUBMISSION. PSYCHOSOCIAL TENDENCIES TOWARDS ATTITUDE CONSERVATION. SUBORDINATION OF TECHNOLOGY. CAPACITY IN NATURAL RESOURCES. DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION. EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL STRUCTURES. IDEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT. SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT. BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPECIES. Any of these powerful groups of conditions, which in turn could be analyzed into a multitude of components, exerts its action on the others. Thus, it is a spatial network of eleven nodes, whose interrelations offer a model that our parent report mathematically analyzes step by step. Here we will limit ourselves to a description of the problem that each node implies. The evolution of each of them influences the others to a variable degree. Thus, we observe that we encounter the maximum incidence in ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION on INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION, with an average value of the entire flow of linkage (branching of the network) of 0.068. On the other hand, we evaluate the influence of the first node: TENDENCIES TOWARDS SUBMISSION on CAPACITY IN NATURAL RESOURCES as "tending towards zero." Thus, future evolution will be less anarchic and unpredictable as the people of Earth have been able to develop a mathematical model that controls the remarkable variables of these nodes. PSYCHOSOCIAL TENDENCIES TOWARDS SUBMISSION. The first thing that surprises our expeditionary brothers on Earth is the structure of social groups and their governance by the leader. We are accustomed to detecting the neurophysiological bases of each of our brothers from the gestation p
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