Who

Created Friday 19 November 2021

Blattids are bland. Yeah, called blattids to wink at them being cockroach-like, but also inherently ignored in their appearance. Like us never really knowing even if Samsa turned into a big bug---let alone a cockroach---there's something about them that makes humans inherently uninterested in them. It'd be a tough feat for me, but an actual writer could write the story from the human point of view entirely, and sublty in the language make it clear that people really just never pay attention to the Blattids enough. But also that part of that is that humans also inherently don't realize that they do. Bliattids have engineered their evolution (through Lamarkian memories to guide future evolution) to a type of invisibility to many oter species---especially alien species.

But, yeah, the downside of that evolution is that there are species in their own biome that ingherently ignore them, too. This hurts blattids mostly in terms of what they can eat (some foods get funky if they're sitting in you not recognizing your biochemistry). But it also helps in that---to some extent---they're safer in their biome by making things that ~~used to~~ kill them less likely to "see" them.

See, it's essentially some level of mental invisibility that's hard to overcome because it inherently attacks the systems that could be designed to react---let alone evolve---to it. Who is powerful stuff.

Who tech makes you invisible by makikng memories about you hard to form. Not like difficult, but made of stuff that is made not to stick in ouyr minds. It's stuff we dont' pay attention to. Cognitively blind to. We have them, it's just for the Blattids to try to find our cognitive blkinds spots. That's one way they attack, one way they infiltrate in hopes of invading. Essentially those who deny seeing the Blattids as a threat. They are blind to their attrocities.

O.K., that is a little on the nose. I never said I was a good writer. One reason why I scribble at this instead of actyally doing anything.