Its an interesting idea, but I think its more natural to see it as a type of folklore - something like believing in trolls and fairies (not cute little ones, the powerful and often scare kind) and the like.
Faerie gradually moved further away as we observed the world better - to distant places, then across the seas, and now completely off the planet.
I think it is likely that racist thinking somehow.
> do predict, though, that as soon as we get invited to the galactic core, the people of Earth are going to become as racist as fuck
Not racist - we will be far more united as a species. However, we will very likely be hostile to other intelligent species. As in a Discworld book, "black and white got on fine, but ganged up on green".
Faerie gradually moved further away as we observed the world better - to distant places, then across the seas, and now completely off the planet.
I think it is likely that racist thinking somehow.
> do predict, though, that as soon as we get invited to the galactic core, the people of Earth are going to become as racist as fuck
Not racist - we will be far more united as a species. However, we will very likely be hostile to other intelligent species. As in a Discworld book, "black and white got on fine, but ganged up on green".