I know, but where do Aliens really come from?

Since an Alien is a native of the City of Ai, I'm seeing the best place to start building a foundation for discussion of the cartoon from complete knowledge as being in the small shelf of books about the "Idea of the City", which is a renaissance matter. It has a place with mythology and green environmental issues about four cases into the numbering system. Books on the Idea of the City have come along since the 1930s and were first circulated by University of Chicago professors and their colloquium. Books about planned cities, the ideology of city building and revitalization, urban decay and renewal with related matters included are actually written at an adult reading level and provide a bigger picture on a broader canvas than kids picture books and comic book novels for staring a conversation on the meaning of this widespread and popular topic for conversation.

Cities don't have life cycles, cities are artificial. The idea that a city grows and decays or even that it rises and falls is an ideology, based on fragments of knowledge from urban population areas throughout history. It's of paramount importance that we understand the city to be a place, and not confuse the proper nouns. That there is a city is that there is a place ordained on a map. It doesn't require that there already be an infrastructure, or that a certain number of buildings be standing. Politically speaking, for out temporal histories, Washington DC is illustrious of "The Idea of A City". It was ordained, decreed, declared, surveyed, plotted, planned and graphed. As a noun, remember, the city is a place, a coordinate location. This will sound pedantic until you find their volumes.

There are four kinds of nouns, person, place, thing, and idea. A city is a place. The obtrusion in their thought attaches to the two-party system of government, there are indeed two political parties. There are not two parts of a city so that they can open up a dialectical process, the city isn't divisible into "people and architecture" or "inhabitants and laws". A city is a capitalized ordained nominal location, and the word city contains a notional and notational logical identity. "A City is a City".

There's a naturalistic Green Party modus operandi or methodology of thought behind this. The ideas that cities rise and fall naturally is an outgrowth of the notion that the race is evolving. The idea here is the same as a naturalist's conception of God as nature, the pantheist notion, long since argued to its negation by Heraclitus, that a volcanic mountain might be a God, or that lightning might be a God, and that God might even be many Gods, always appearing as violent outbursts of nature power, as with the worldwide flood, the striking of the Ziggurat with lightning, the apparent eruption of Mount Siani when the stone Ten Commandments were delivered, or the Earthquake that swallowed Kora, Dathan and Abiram.

Students of continental philosophy from the 1800s will already be familiar with the arguments in Marx and Weber against "ideology", which has a longer encyclopedic rather than shorter dictionary definition. There is an ideology of cities, or rather an ideology of the city, and its foundations are in theological scholarship. What is ideology? It isn't prophecy, if it was, you'd hear about an ideology of shipbuilding. Ideology is the notion that Solomon, the builder of Jerusalem the city, had an idea. Was Solomon of Israel not following divine command simply because he was a King, and is not listed in recorded scripture among the prophets? The jury is still out, I assure, you, but that very hair splitting "angels dancing on the head of a pin" argument, turgid and abstruse as it is, is the basis of "ideology". The other thing ideology is not is architecture, as students of Le Corbusier soon discover. It is at best, the speculative masonry of people like Albert Pike and Manly Hall.