It’s not that they don’t know about us.
We are just a quarantined planet.
“It’s not that they don’t know about us.
We are just a quarantined planet”.
Winner!
We on earth are the star attraction of a galactic entertainment syndicate. We provide beings with a never-ending, never repeating variety of non-stop entertainment 24/365.
No alien civilization would dare invade us to end the fun. No other alien civilizations would permit it. We are off-limits.
...Unless you were obliquely referencing C.S. Lewis or the Bible?
I agree. We are too crazy and not developed or mature enough.
We do not have own stuff together as a world. Still fighting among ourselves.
Society will freak out if aliens show up today.
It’s not that they don’t know about us.
We are just a quarantined planet.
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This is far more likely. Aliens probably see the inhabitants of this planet as extremely dangerous. The way we might see a tribe of primitive headhunters.