Humans Will Look like Robots
When you read about Japanese scientists’ intelligent, blow up doll in “Japanese develop ‘female’ android” always think about the inverse of the cliché “one day robots will look like humans.” It is not impossible to speculate that one day humans will look like robots. Find a way to compare the dance moves of Brittany Spears to Janet Jackson to Tina Turner and think about this again: one day humans will look like robots.
All “we” have to do is lower our expectations of what human beings can do and be—and soon we have organic androids dreaming of electric sheep. rasx() is sensitive to this issue because “The Western Tradition” has made me the target of low expectations. I learned years ago that I actually disappoint some people when I do not meet their low expectations. It is not that these people are evil. It is that these people study war.
When you study war, you are prepared for war. There is not much time to prepare for anything else when you study war—perhaps this is another white-house brief behind why “we” are no longer in a War on Terror or a War on Drugs. You have excluded all other possibilities when you “struggle against” enemies. All you need are enemies for your warlike manner. It is not for me to convince you that your investments in destruction are misplaced because on the day of your revelation you will be as an infant trying to walk for the first time—and I have my own children to raise. It is my task to protect my next generation from being killed abstractly and physically by your “struggle.”