Leban%hp-hulk.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (08/06/85)
From: Bruce <Leban%hplabs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> With these two discussions going on at the same time, I'm surprised no one has made the obvious connection: Human beings are so unbearably cute that a visit to this arm of the Galaxy wouldn't be complete without taking one of us home as a souvenir.... > From: jcr@Mitre-Bedford (Jeff Rogers) > Might [aliens] take us as slaves, forcing us to create artworks for > them? Would such a scheme work? Would the kidnapped humans create > great art? Perhaps so, if suffering contributes to great art. Or would > they turn out trash? Would the aliens know the difference? Why not just take the art itself? It's much more difficult to get a work of art out of a living artist than out of a museum. (Assuming you have sufficiently advanced technology to make our theft prevention systems a joke.) Even if they did want to take art, I think it likely that their idea of art is entirely different than ours. Maybe their idea of art is a tomato soup carton. As if anyone could think that was art! [:-] Or maybe they would rather have one of those T-shirts that says "My fluxmate went to Earth and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." -------