I doubt we qualify as "intelligent life" in the universe. And there must be intelligent life somewhere because we have some inkling that something is wrong compared to - something else. Life that is obsessed with objects and money, and takes no thought to its own immense suffering and the distinct possibility of its absolute extinction for all time cannot qualify as intelligent. The narrative and official political statements now make Jabberwocky sound totally intelligible in comparison. Can you take in, for instance, Ursula Von Der Leyen's actual scolding and warning to Xi Jinping? In his own country, yet? I'm damned if I can. And now she's promoted to NATO Secretary General.

You couldn't find a worse choice in a back alley.