IDEA FOR A MINISERIES: Extraterrestrials come to Earth promising hope and change. Gradually their sinister plot is revealed: They will take over the planet and run it pretty much the same way it was being run before.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
And then there’s the twist: the extraterrestrials are from the planet Fabius.
Happy Thanksgiving.
The audacity of hope springs eternal….
Harry Turtledove’s Colonization following his Worldwar series?
This suggests a new twist to the ‘Birther’ movement: Obama is a space lizard.
(according to Wikipedia there actually are neo-nazi conspiracy theories iwhich involve space lizards)