I was checking around on a particularly funny webcomic, and I ran into this:
http://www.commissionedcomic.com/?p=1024
It got me to thinking. We often use aliens as thinly veiled strawmen for certain aspects of humanity, (Star Trek was famous for this early on, Klingons are an especially good example) or we make the aliens exactly like us as a metaphor for how xenophobic super patriotic jingoism is bad- with the lesson being that we are really the same underneath.
Animals are often used in the same manner- the first was applied to George Orwell's Animal Farm, the second has been ridiculously overused by PETA and put in just about every anti-hunting movie ever.
Thundercats, of course, are both aliens and anthropomorphic cats.
Now, everyone has wondered, "what would an ACTUAL race of aliens be like?"
So I ask you: What would an ACTUAL race of anthropomorphic animals be like? Would actual anthropomorphic dogs, like those in game dogs, sniff each other's butts rather than shake hands?
Discuss.
http://www.commissionedcomic.com/?p=1024
It got me to thinking. We often use aliens as thinly veiled strawmen for certain aspects of humanity, (Star Trek was famous for this early on, Klingons are an especially good example) or we make the aliens exactly like us as a metaphor for how xenophobic super patriotic jingoism is bad- with the lesson being that we are really the same underneath.
Animals are often used in the same manner- the first was applied to George Orwell's Animal Farm, the second has been ridiculously overused by PETA and put in just about every anti-hunting movie ever.
Thundercats, of course, are both aliens and anthropomorphic cats.
Now, everyone has wondered, "what would an ACTUAL race of aliens be like?"
So I ask you: What would an ACTUAL race of anthropomorphic animals be like? Would actual anthropomorphic dogs, like those in game dogs, sniff each other's butts rather than shake hands?
Discuss.
