"What is it to be human? What is life?" These timeless questions reflect our ongoing quest for meaning, even amid modern life's distractions. In a time where the commodification of life is a constant, we seem to "die in our spare time and come back on company expenses." Is our current socio-economic system and our way of thinking about modernity, not a form of living death for some? Perhaps an outsider's perspective might reveal our self-imposed hurdles. What would an alien say about humanity?