Well, beam me up Scotty. No, not really, since the crew of Star Trek was far away from our solar system, roaming the universe in a deep devotion to exploration of things unknown and living the life of utopia of humanity where all bodily needs are met and the childhood illnesses of young political, social, economic systems and moral structures resolved – leaving humans, humanoids and all other conscious beings to devote themselves to the highest quest their potential can master.

But why should you pretend you’re a Martian sometimes? Because things are usually not as they seem. Because the names of things, even if you knew them in all languages of the world, still don’t tell you anything about the inner workings of that particular thing or a system. Because if you’re a Martian you’re seeing everything for the first time unbound by the accidental path of accepted semi-solutions we Earthlings fondly call history and study to exhaustion and without them you’re free to make new theories outside the box just by the facts you observe.

Your weird unusual greenness that doesn’t fit in is your asset if you’re trying to understand. Your Martianity allows you to find new points of view that would otherwise remain hidden from sight if locked in your Earthly upbringing and dogma it carries. So if you’re ever backed into a corner, if you find yourself hitting a wall while trying to figure something out, keep running into the same obstacle than just stop doing that same thing over and over again. Step out of all the things you think you know because something is faulty in your reasoning here anyway and you most likely cannot understand what since the problem of the system cannot be solved by the same mechanism that created it. Just let it all go – all of the presumptions, prejudice and so called fact and start observing with no judgements or predetermined boxes, point bank starting from scratch as if you were not of this Earth.

Get into your spaceship and float over the stratosphere. Things look very different once you tear yourself away from gravity and look at the whole. Perspective is everything. So pretend you’re a Martian, and oh yes please do “come in peace and mean us no harm”… speaking to our leader might be difficult if Martians don’t believe in bureaucracy, but there is no need for that anyway. You can speak to any of us. We’re all sharing the experience of life on this planet.