Charles Liu
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Podcast Appearances
So it's the frightening part of it is that what we don't understand and what we don't know.
This has been true for all monsters throughout all of history.
But they were not... They had been co-opted by interstellar or non-human spores.
So instead of a fungus that had evolved from our earth, they had dropped in from somewhere in space.
Yes, because we have the closeness to humans and recognizable things, but just a little bit off, and we can imagine ourselves in that predicament.
And we wouldn't be able to sympathize with the fish.
You could.
Right?
Because that's the goal.
That's right.
And so the irony is, again, who are the monsters in Finding Nemo?
Not the fish.
Not the shark.
The humans.
It flashes out to the aliens.
We are the monsters.
That's right.
That's right.
Period.
We are the monsters.