And they know better than anyone what it's like to live next to a collossus; a benign one, granted, but one that has its own agenda and can be quite ruthless (and often clumsy) about promoting it if it has to. When you share a bed with an 800 pound gorilla, it doesn't have to be hostile to be dangerous. On the other hand, they can come in handy as friend.
As the South Americans say, "When the US sneezes, we catch pneumonia."
This is the situation I was trying to describe with my hypothetical aliens, in reality, my views about what real aliens and their commerce and industry are likely to be like are much closer to TB's than the ones in my parable, or in the show. The concept of trade and culture as similar to ours as the one I describe is highly unlikely if we ever do get visitors. They will be strange, and benign or not, let's hope they have a lot of experience dealing with aborigines when they get here.
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