Confessions of an Alien Who’s Officially Done With Earth (But Still Somehow Ends Up Defending Israel)

A view from outside a planet that lost its logic

A view from outside a planet that lost its logic

From a distance, Earth looks beautiful. Up close, it feels like a system that no longer understands its own rules. At some point, you stop asking who is right and start asking why everything is so consistently upside down.

I am an alien, and I don’t want to be on this planet anymore.

Not metaphorically. Not poetically. Literally, existentially, structurally done.

There is no energy left in me for this place. No energy for humanity, for its endless contradictions, its selective morality, its theatrical outrage. Everything here is upside down, inverted, twisted into something that no longer even pretends to make sense.

Take the Gaza flotilla situation. Just take that one example and try, honestly try, to explain it to a neutral observer from another planet.

You have a declared war zone. You have a naval blockade, which whether people like it or not is a recognized instrument in warfare. You have repeated attempts, not once, not twice, but over and over again, to breach that blockade. Not accidentally. Not out of confusion. Deliberately.

And then this is the part where my alien brain starts short circuiting you have people framing those attempts as peaceful, noble, humanitarian acts. As if repeatedly trying to cross into a restricted military zone is some kind of moral high ground.

From where I’m standing, breaching a blockade in a war zone is not a symbolic gesture. It is a hostile act. It is a choice. And choices have........

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