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every time i see comment chains in the UFO subreddits imagining post contact life on Earth they are all wishcasting communism or at least collapse of capitalism
so there's that at least. they just don't have a name for it
they also think this post capitalist thing, whatever it is, can't be built or conceived of by humanity and has to be imposed
A lot of it is wishful "humans are bad so our systems must be bad" kind of nihilistic thinking. Wishful and those two seem like on the opposite ends but it's more so "hopeful" like "humans suck so these aliens got to better"
Some thing they really don't get when you look at it from a materialist lens that even with the most "advanced technology" breaking the thousands/tens of thousands of years of language, habit and behavior that we have as a species that has impacted our conditions is quite a hard task. Post-contact would likely be unintelligible for the most part.