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PART IV 61 rather than taught, humans will be forced to conform to alien demands to avoid suffering the revocation of that technology. If the providers are less than sincere, this gives them powerful lever- age to do with us as they please. Benevolent aliens would advance our technology only if accompanied and earned by spiritual and ethical advancement on our part. We would thereby preserve our self-determination and leave them free of having to constantly supervise us. Aliens who wish to interfere in our affairs and take 1 wae. cod 1 1 control would instead use promises of technology as a bargaining chip and means of inducing addiction and dependence. Aliens advocate peace and loving your neighbor, and that does not fit the characteristic of brainwashing. Those who advocate peace, brotherly love, generosity, altruism, and oneness are necessarily positive. The goal of all tyranny is to impose peace and order through the annihilation of opposition, which includes the eradication of true individuality and independent thinking. Within a completed totalitarian state, ideals like peace, brotherly love, generosity, al- truism, and oneness are encouraged as long as they serve the ends of the state. These are beneficial for collectivism, positive means 1 . + om co . 1 coe toward negative ends. Therefore they are not necessarily proof of benevolence. Additionally, no manipulative alien would tarnish its image or show its true colors by advocating violence and ha- tred against neighbors; words here are not as important as actions and underlying intent. Not that these positive ideals must be avoided, rather they must be accompanied by additional qualities like discernment and independence, otherwise they become c oe 1. ao Aliens are not hostile because if they were, they would have wiped us out already, or could do so in a matter of minutes. No outward sign of hostility indicates benevolence. 7. Taking naive assumptions toward false conclusions means of pacification and tranquilization.