Writer's Block: Can you handle the truth?

[browngirl]

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May I have two questions?
[Either way.] Is there sentient, civilized life on other planets?
[If I got two questions] May I have a World History textbook from each such planet ETA: translated into 2000 CE American English? [Thanks, ceo!] I'll give them one of ours each in exchange (I cannot promise to translate it, though).

(I want to know if their histories are as full of struggles and inequities and violence as ours. I suspect yes, but I only have one planet's history to work from.)

Comments

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of our problems are due to primate dominance hierarchies. It's possible that a species descended from something else wouldn't have so much inequality and violence....