But what if humans go to outer space, to a golden age of unity and fraternity with our fellow sapient beings among the beings of the universe, and along the way we’ve built up assumptions of what our strengths might be
we consider our stamina, our willpower in contrast to other animals; how we run things to death, and how we’re tougher in some ways than animals, and its generally accepted that we might be pretty tough compared to other aliens, maybe super pretty or diplomatically skilled
but then we go there, and meet aliens, and we look up
and up
and up some more to see their eye-analogues or whatever they might have
and they are huge, and they are strong, and they’re extremely worried about how relatively fragile we seem to be, in comparsion; but for those of us that are effectively posthuman, heavily cyborg-ed up or whatnot, we’re not in a majority of innate physical fitness compared to other aliens, as imagined
we’re not the orcs of space, we realize in a shock
we’re the hobbits
This is so funny bacause the origin of the "humans are space orcs" idea came from subverting the idea that humans are pathetic in space that shows up in movies. And now the subversion is being subverted






















