The Richter Scale of Culture

I’ll never know this in my lifetime for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the guy who invents it, Dr. Alonzo Richter, won’t be born for about 150 years, but it’d be interesting to know where Earth falls on the Richter Scale of Culture.

I guess technically it’s easy to puzzle it out and decide that not only are we not ready for a first contact visit, but that we’re a world at a level of development low enough that the Prime Directive would still apply. Anyway, when I think in terms of an overall rating, especially when the word “Culture” is in the title of the scale, I think beyond science and technology and of adding in other things like how serious the world is in pursuing things like peace and acceptance and in an overall providing for the welfare of every living being on the planet.