Holy Frell! I've been Lax!

There are things that I enjoy so much which are, especially in their execution, utterly human; simply enough, we call them the Humanities. Some of the humanities are far more catholic, story telling, though we have no basis on what other non-human cultures have in their story-telling conventions. Others, like painting, are based in our biological perception of the world to the point that even other mammals might not be able to make a similar visual sense of the piece. Every one of the humanities are effected by the mere fact that we are humans, and in ways that are too profound to grasp.

I enjoy the humanities thoroughly, though I am fascinated on how they, and our modern visual culture, would be changed by regular contact with other technologically advanced peoples. Architecture would enlarge in all dimensions to allow the largest creature who enters the space comfort. Visual displays would have to assume a large range of colors to allow comprehension by all pigments in the eyes of those who gaze upon them.

Let us return to the architecture notion. The accessibility requirements would be astounding! Most humans are of a similar size and shape, and we can make pretty decent generalizations of what humans need. Once aliens with different anatomies get thrown in the fold, then things change drastically. Theaters might go the way of airplanes and have to charge per seat, or the larger creatures might have to sit in the back. Vehicles would have to be designed to a particular species' modes of manipulation. Eateries would have to serve portions of different sizes and macronutritive compositions. It seems that segregation might occur as an easy means of keeping conventions separate.

This potential segregation scares the hell out of me, as the segregation of human race scares me. With segregation comes hatred and crime, distrust, and inequality. I feel that it would be a great boon to us to integrate with our intellectually capable brethren, to allow their views on life to inform ours and to allow our view to inform theirs. We would both become greater peoples, and hopefully, a single people in this manner.