I subscribe to the idea that “they” are already here, and have been watching us for ten thousand years.

They see all that we are and all that we do. Given such circumstance, what do you think might be made of us, and our pathological lies we tell ourselves of our better nature?

Due to restrictions on HN's title length, I had to botch the article title, I am sorry for that. The actual title is:

Advancing Space Technology and Preparing for Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence through Multilateralism

Basically, the article says that we can be viewed as a dangerous species by other interstellar species, and therefore contained in a "Solar system zoo".