Okay, let's say you live a normal life. You wake up, you go to work or school, you come home, you watch TV, you go to bed. This goes on for a while. You think you have a pretty normal life, surrounded by perfectly normal people.

Now, at some point you're presented the knowledge that you don't really live in a real world. You, and 6 billion other people, actually live in a gigantic cage on an alien space station, and you're being monitored constantly by aliens.

If you had never been told the truth, you would have never found out. You would have had children, grown old, retired and finally died without any hint of alien involvement. In fact, even after knowing about this you will still live the rest of your life without seeing one of them.

Would this knowledge affect your life in any way? Would you go on living, or would you try to escape the captivity you didn't know about?

It's all a bit Truman show....

hmmm....

I'd reflect on the fact that the world we live is far from perfect, and use that as an excuse to think about breaking free and starting afresh. If we had a utopian society, or something approaching it, I'd stick with the aliens for the good of the species.

(Obviously I'd be reflecting on the past there, knowing what savage gits our species can be)

It seems this question comes up every few months.

I will not be denied my freedom. I would fight for it.

Maybe, if the so called real world would be better.

There is absolutely no difference between the real world and the cage. Same geography, same people, same foods. The only difference is that it's in a cage and aliens are watching you, but you don't have any way of knowing unless you're told.

I'd go on a homicidal rampage.

I would try to learn as much as I could about my captors. Once I had collected enough evidence, I would start telling people. They'd almost certainly think I was crazy, but that's why I'd wait until I had compelling evidence until I spoke up.

If I couldn't convince anybody, I'd try to find a way to escape on my own.

If I couldn't find out anything more about these aliens than what I'd been told in the initial revelation, and thus couldn't convince anyone or escape by myself... I dunno. I'd probably go back to living like normal. I'd never give up trying to find out more -- how long this has been going on, what parts of what I know are true, and what parts are false, that sort of thing -- even if it ultimately proved futile. I'd be alert for any chance to escape, always doing Internet searches and the like, on the lookout for other people who know about this.

Hmm. I doubt my life as viewed by an outsider would change much after the initial shock. I'd still do the regular things, go to work, go to church, hang out with friends. Probably start working out and learning some martial art, and how to use a gun, y'know, just in case the opportunity arose to fight my way out of captivity (not that our primitive combat methods would be much use against an enemy that powerful, but you never know).

In short, any way you look at it, it would suck. It would suck a lot.

If there's no difference, what's the point? If it's the same people, how are they aliens? Why would they cage us if we're the same as them?

I hate these questions. It's like the Truman Show, or the Matrix. It's nothing new. Some people want to be controlled, while others would die for freedom.

You didn't read my post. It's not like the Matrix, it's not like the Truman show. Everybody around you is a real person. You, and 6 billion other humans, are trapped in a cage.

It would depend on my motivation at the time I was told. If they told me today I'd most likely be "meh" (that's if I believed them,) and other days I'd go crazy and try to get out. I hate people/things watching me >_<

Well, many people have a religious figure "watching" over them, and I don't see most of them going crazy. If such times were happening and aliens have put civilization in a "cage," I would probably not believe it. Just curious, how would this "knowledge" of such a deep secret about our world be presented to me?

It would give me even more incentive to create a doomsday device.

How many people feel trapped in a cage right now and don't do anything about it?

Wouldn't really effect me at all. What am I going to do, get a high off of eascaping, then go back to doing my menial things? Silly no. I might, however, attempt to make peace with the aliens and offer my soul for power. They'd make me president of the human race. I could fire people at will. Woot.

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So Jon, what exactly makes you ask tis question? Do you know something? hmmmm? Have something you might like to share? =_=

Depending if I actually liked living how I was I would most likely stay put but try to remove all observation devices.

If I didn't like it I'd defiantley try to break out.

As to if it would change me knowing about it. Of course it would, any small event in life changes us and I think this would be a big one.

Hold on...

Are you trying to say WE ARE in a cage!

We have one chance,
one chance to get everything right.
My friends, my habits, my family,
they mean so much to me.
I just don't think that it's right.
I've seen so many ships sail in,
just to head back out again and go off sinking.

It's just my personal thing was what I was trying to get at. Wasn't saying everyone goes crazy (If I did say that I didn't mean that...it was too early...)

All I would do is think one thing. "Those must be some huge-*** aliens, to maintain our entire universe in one of their space stations."

Um, The Matrix?

Well, maybe these alien beings would rather watch your best attempts to contact them, and they would never let you succeed. You would go insane in your determination of talking with the "ET"s and become an outcast of the ignorant society (much like a frantic hippie.) Ha. They would make the BEST REALITY SHOW from your life.