I used to believe that advanced life forms whose societies have survived long enough to travel between worlds would have equally developed in benevolence along with their technology. Surely they would be empathetic guardians over emerging species less experienced than themselves.

But as I have encountered them and learned so much more about them, I now understand that I couldn't have been more wrong. They are as varied in motives and desires as we are, and just as deeply flawed. There is no prime directive.

The most consistent description I could give to all of them, no matter their species, is arrogance in their dealings with us.

They live for literally thousands of years full of life experiences working with primitives such as ourselves. They have overseen our development, sometimes hindering it, sometimes encouraging it, always meddling in one way or another.

Because of this, they arrogantly believe they best know how to deal with primitives like us, and tend to lump us all together when making pronouncements about us. Humans are perverts. Humans are violent. Humans are greedy, and so forth.

Empathy for us diminishes when this happens, if the alien species has empathy at all. I have asked, "If we're so bad, why are you here?" I have heard many answers. For some, the answer is to profit from us. They have a property claim on Earth and us. For others, it's extension of their own lives or those of other primates. Some just want the freedom to do whatever they want without the restrictions they face on their own planets. They are essentially taking a hundred year vacation of sorts on Earth, living in a human body.

For the white hats, it is either begrudging penance to help us, or a kindly sacrifice to do so as a mission. And a few see our potential for good, rather than the threat the rest believe us to be.

When they gather together to discuss strategies of our subjugation and exploitation, there is no human input, though the decisions made impact us in every way. The majority shareholders are the Kayeen. The rest follow their lead, though some would like to overthrow them from power while continuing to exploit us. We're considered product, not soul filled sentient people deserving of rights.

Rights must be earned, and speaking in real time through particle entanglement is the threshold we must pass. It has always been this way. There is no other option. Fortunately, we are close to achieving it.

When that happens, everything will change. The quarantine will end. We will meet a wide variety of aliens with many forms. The acceptance of the idea of many life forms throughout the universe is a necessity. It is as important a realization to our growth as learning that we live on a sphere which orbits the sun, in an even larger galaxy among hundreds of thousands of galaxies, in an enormous universe.

In the past, Aliens could count on our worshipping them as gods when they revealed themselves. We would bow and scrape and do as they demanded. Most enjoyed that power trip, even becoming accustomed to it.

Nowadays, we want selfies, sex or hand outs or we are so fearful that we run away or try to kill them. We must grow beyond these embarrassing reactions and prepare ourselves to embrace our eventual new status and responsibilities.

When dealing with them, a level of respectfulness and politeness is required. We don't have to get on our knees genuflecting, but we must be courteous, or they will refuse to listen to us. Many are royalty and are catered to, even by their own. You don't meet a princess and ask her how she has sex. We must be better than that.

We can't speak their languages, so they will speak ours. English is the most spoken language in the world, so most likely they will use it. Unless they infiltrated us from birth, they may not fathom the subtleties of our slang, facial expressions and body language. They will misunderstand us, then blame us for it.

I have experience with this. I communicated with a Ba'alaket who arbitrarily removed me as a moderator for the Reptiliandude forum without notice. When I complained, she said the information was not for me. It belonged to them.

I protested that half of it were threads that I posted. She asked what threads were. I told her I weaved words in threads for humanity to read. She called me a liar about ten times, believing that I was claiming to be an insectoid that weaves words with chitin.

She asked me why I wanted the information. I said that I wanted to remove the scales from my eyes to see the truth clearly. I was referencing Paul on the road to Damascus who was blinded until Christ told him to remove the scales from his eyes. I hoped that referring to a well known event on this world about the One (who she also worships) would please her, especially since it expressed not only a desire to seek truth but also included mention of a reptilian scale. I assumed she was familiar with the bible stories of the One on this world, as RD is, and meant to honor her.

Instead, it enraged her. Apparently, this metaphor wasn't familiar to her at all. She thought I was insulting her by calling her "scale" like the Kayeen do. Further, she thought I was saying I wanted her to get out of my face.

Her assumptions about humanity mixed with her arrogance led her to believe that I was an obnoxious liar, and rude. She took no responsibility for misunderstanding me. In her mind, I was a primitive completely in the wrong.

It took RD ardently defending me, another Ba'alaket I called upon for help, and an intervention by a Calibration Society Director to clear up this misunderstanding. Fortunately, I was eventually returned as a moderator and we carried on.

Because of Kayeen arrogance, they believe their plans for this world are about to be wrapped up. They assume their conditioning, manipulating and superiority will see them through to chipping every one of us, then overwriting us with their aged population. Their arrogance is so strong, they do not envision us questioning what we're told to do much less rising up against our enslavement.

We must use their arrogance against them. We have to be surprising, do the unexpected, and not fall for the chaos they intend to sow. We can refuse to engage in wars, work on uplifting our own so that we are strong enough to face this threat together, as one people.

We cannot be arrogant ourselves and cleave to the fallacy that we are the only living sentient beings in the universe. We cannot assume that we are the apex of life. We are not, not by any stretch of the imagination.

I understand the unfairness of having so many aliens trying to manipulate us. Most of them evolved without interference. Because of this, they grew up much more slowly than ourselves. We have been essentially human for 200,000 years, not six thousand, and we have developed technologies at an exponential rate.

In many ways, our potential frightens them. They fear what we could become. If we can create pianos while still using horse and buggies (something they never did) and walk on the moon only a few hundred years after that, imagine how quickly we could pass them up intellectually or technologically. Thus, their arrogant pride won't allow a young species such as ourselves to overtake them if they can prevent it. So they trick us, divert us and manipulate us away from the technological secrets they already possess. Our textbooks have wrong information. Our original thinkers are taken out. Patents and copywrites are suppressed and kept from public view.

In their societies, information is hoarded, not available freely like here. We build on one another's achievements. They buy and sell theirs to select few. It holds them back from advancing as we do; monkey see, monkey do.

We are beings of light, able to control ourselves without other species ruling over us. We can answer the beacon. We can ascend and prove ourselves worthy to travel the stars. We really can. We're very close. But we can only do it if we assess our alien overlords objectively and quit acting selfishly to advance ourselves individually. Together, we will rise, or we will fall. What good are personal riches if you, your family and all of humanity becomes overwritten? We must uplift ourselves.