The third war was a war of revenge and security. The people in charge outer space wanted to make sure that before the buggers attacked earth again, that they could wipe them off the face of the universe. While people were preparing for the hopefully last bugger war, the buggers were regretting their mistake. Buggers are actually very peaceful beings. However, one mistake caused a huge misunderstanding which lead to year after year of preparing for a destructive war that did not need to happen in the first place. Confusion almost always leads to jump-in conclusions, arguments, and disagreements over two different subjects. For example, one person is arguing about math question number three while her friend is disagreeing with her and disputing over number thirteen.
Communication is vital. Even when two people do not speak the same language, they find a way to communicate in some way, whether it is by using body motions or by drawing pictures or any other possible way. Communication is the solution to problems caused by misunderstandings.
However, in the book Ender's Game, people did not even try to communicate with the buggers. Human beings tend to think that when they meet someone or something different from themselves, that they are less developed and less inteligent. They want to have power of them and think of themselves one step higher than the other, just because that somebody is different. The buggers, or aliens are known as weird creatures from outer space. But this assumption was made before anyone ever saw an alien!
Misunderstandings can lead to bad cases, but they can also lead to an even tighter understanding of one another.
1 comment:
I like this post, I like how you put the two passages together and talked about communication. I was really depressed when I found out at the end that the buggers actually were peaceful, and didn't want to kill. I agree with you that communication is very important. There's one thing you missed out though. You said that in your post that in Ender's Game people did not try to communicate to the buggers. Actually they did. In the book, Ender asked the same question as probably what you were thinking. Ender asked if buggers could actually communicate with humans, if the first and second invasion was only because the buggers didn't know, and maybe they didn't want to hurt humans anymore. Mazor replied saying that they have been trying to communicate with the buggers with (probably) ansibles but got no response. In conclusion, the humans thought that the buggers couldn't communicate with them and decided to attack first. I hope that this may have helped you more in what actually happened.
However, I think this was a great post and insightful on how communication and effect relationship, especially between "different" people or species.
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