Over the past couple of days I’ve been re-reading my Garfield books and it occurred to me to wonder, if aliens arrived on earth and read those, what are they going to think of them? (why do cat lovers read Garfield? Because Jim Davis knows a thing or two about cats, and it also reminds those of us who have cats that no matter how bad our cat is, s/he is never that bad…) But an alien with little knowledge of earth is really going to wonder if perhaps these are not perhaps satirical parodies about a world-ruling dictator? Hmmm… Come to think of it, would they be entirely wrong? And if our civilization perishes and some of the books are eventually dug out of the ruins several hundred years later, what will their archeologists reconstruct of our civilization based on those works?
