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What makes you say that?
I am citing this work, it's not my original thought.
I'm not blaming you, I blame Posadas, but that was a load of rubbish, and I'd like to explain why because I still find this a fascinating line of thought.
There are sections like this where Posadas says what might be possible. Sure, no problem there. But then they just sort of continue on as if it is for sure possible. Maybe this is just a style of writing that I personally don't find agreeable, but I think it is not the correct strategy if your goal is to come to the conclusion that extra terrestrials probably/necessarily are using a given economic/political model.
Then there are parts like this. Just because something is conceivable doesn't mean it is possible. I can conceive of a perpetual motion machine, but the laws of physics prevent it.
This is to me, easily one of the critical misses of this piece. They acknowledge that there is problems with how we support the sciences, but this problem is just handwaved, moving onto the next thing. There are more economic systems out there than just capitalism and USSR style socialism. We've made technological progress under both, and many of the others. We even made technological progress under feudalism and barter systems.
And because scientific progress can be achieved through any of these economic systems*, we can't just assume that extra terrestrials found themselves on our doorstep due to one particular economic model.
* At different rates obviously, but progress nonetheless.
This section in particular reeks of woo-woo. To put it bluntly, the evidence for extraterrestrial UFOs is severely lacking. Additionally, there are other, better, simpler and therefore more likely explanations of these things. There is very clearly a cultural aspect to it. People who claim to have been abducted routinely describe extraterrestrials as looking like whatever TV alien style was popular at the time of their childhood. For some that's big rubbery green monsters, for some its little gray guys with black eyes.
There is also strong indication that it is a cultural phenomenon due to the fact that the majority of sightings happen in the U.S. and the U.K.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/ufo-sightings-by-country
Posadas seems to acknowledge this:
But then immediately turns around and acts like extraterrestrial UFOs are a certainty:
There is one final critical miss here, in my opinion:
This line of thought relies on the earlier premise that extraterrestrials are already here and are peaceful. I think I've sufficiently explained why there is insufficient reason to believe that. But worse is, even if they did exist and are currently peaceful, that still doesn't necessarily prove anything about their economic/political system.
It could be the case that they've only sent recon ships to prepare for invasion, to extract capital value from our planet. It could be the case that they never grew out of feudalism, and their monarch simply finds us entertaining. It could be the case that they are hyper individualistic, using a barter economy with no government, but are long lived enough to make technological progress on an individual level, and there's only a few of them in orbit poking around. I absolutely love science fiction, and I could go on with a million other made up examples that would fit the narrative here, but it's only ever going to be fiction. There needs to be much stronger evidence than what Posadas provided.
I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on this. Because while I heavily disagree with Posadas, this is still an incredibly interesting topic.
I have some thoughts, though I need to wait until I'm off my phone or it's going to be a rambling mess