Sf writers can comment on humanity by imagining how we would appear to other intelligent species. However, I seem to have addressed this issue sufficiently in previous posts. See here and also What Happened Long Ago.
The Didonians are sufficiently alien to present a unique perspective:
"(Blurred, two legs, faceless...no, had they beaks?)"
-The Rebel Worlds, p. 5.
"...the strangers, who had but single bodies and yet could talk..."
-op. cit., p. 6.
"...pity that race, who are not beasts but can think, and thus know that they will never know oneness." (p. 141)
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Kaor, Paul!
I would have said to a Didonnian: "Thank you, but I DON'T want your kind of "oneness." And your lack of true individualities."
Ad astra! Sean
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