War of Ignorance

"But who sall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited?...Are we or they the Lords of the world?...And how are all things made for man?-KEPLER, quoted in the Anatomy of Melancholy

In HG Well's War Of The Worlds, before the foreigners reach Earth, there is what appears to be a small suspicion. Well's states that a puff of flame exploaded out of Mars and rushed to the earth. But then the plume became invisible shortly after. He then states:

"Yet the next day nothing of this in the papers except a little note in the "Daily Telegraph", and the world went on in ignorance of one of the gravest dangers that ever threatened the human race." 

Wow, does that sound familiar or what? I believe that aliens do not exist and that I don't believe that strange tripods, burried under our feet for millions of years, are suddenly going to arrive in our cities, killing every sign of life alike. Many things out of the ordinary in modern day America is dismissed as unecessary, or that it doesn't matter now. So, if some wierd attack were to happen, would we be saying "How oblivious were we?"
HG Wells is somewhat percieved as "crazy", but he overanaylzed the mysterious, making him sound very unusual. I suggest that he was an amazing scholar and that his work should be considered and read more, even if it was all make-belief.

"Somethings are happening now and will never be attended to"-Wells