Robotics...
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wolven7Chevelle - [The Red]--- I miss Isaac Asimov. I have this collection of stories, and the more i read it, the more i want more of the same. More of that quality. And he says, himself, in the introduction to the collection, he never meant the robots to be metaphors, or symbols. They were robots. As robots, they followed a logical train of thoughts,a nd actions, to a logical conclussion. In the process, they also developed emotive capabilities. They became, as White Zombie would one day make clear to us, More Human Than Human.
We know about my "Pinnochio Complex," as i was often fond of calling it, but we haven't discussed the symetrical opposition: The "Frankenstein Complex." (God Lives Underwater - [Happy]). Or perhaps "Shellian Complex." This is the place where what you want is not to be a "Real Boy," as Pinnoc' so naively put it, because you already know that you're real. Shit, you may even be more real than any one around you. You are deemed "inferior," because you are constructed, built by seen hands, and known forces, and when, epiphenomenally, you start to Feel things, and contemplate the nature of the self and soul, they get Upset... But i somewhat digress. The point is that you know you're a real boy, and you know what you deserve (life, freedom, equality of respect, for you and your wants and wishes), but there is... little, in the world that is willing to give it to you. Because, most of the time, people don't treat their children as equals.
Oingo Boingo - [Running On A Treadmill]--- When you create something-- by hand or by sexual reproduction-- you tend to think that thing subordinate to you, because you Created it, you brought it into being. This is a fallacy. It is Bullshit. You create something, and birth it, from the realm of the potential, into the realm of that which is factual. And? Where, in any of that act, is it implicit or explicitly stated that, because you did this, it must forever remain subordinate to you, and your wishes? Children grow from parents, and make their own lives. Respect is (ideally) still given, but that's a Two Way Street.
Am i still speaking metaphorically? A bit. Maybe i'm layering.
How were you created? What parts make you You? (The Clash - [Rudie Can't Fail]). There is no One Thing, that makes anyone. In your inception, you may be of a single component, but that's merely a starting point. As you learn, and grow, you integrate new things, and those things become a Part of You. Experience. Points of View. Nature, Nurture, and nurtured natural states. What i'm asking, here, is if you know what makes you? Search it out. Understand it. Look for that core spark, at the centre of it all, because that spark is, and always will be the thing which orchestrated your steps and placements, from the word go. The thing that shaped your perception, and preference, and choice. That which is you.
We are all more human than human, it is simply a matter of how we view our components. (Monty Python - [Sit On My Face]). If we see a partite structure, or a smooth whole, with different sides, or whatever. But we are all combined. Put together, somehow.
Jack Off Jill - [Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers]--- It's the kind of consideration that makes me amazed, makes me wonder... what makes these considerations so... Off-Putting, to so many?
Self-Referential statements make people confused, much of the time. The rest of the time it makes them unhappy. Except for the times when it doesn't.
We know about my "Pinnochio Complex," as i was often fond of calling it, but we haven't discussed the symetrical opposition: The "Frankenstein Complex." (God Lives Underwater - [Happy]). Or perhaps "Shellian Complex." This is the place where what you want is not to be a "Real Boy," as Pinnoc' so naively put it, because you already know that you're real. Shit, you may even be more real than any one around you. You are deemed "inferior," because you are constructed, built by seen hands, and known forces, and when, epiphenomenally, you start to Feel things, and contemplate the nature of the self and soul, they get Upset... But i somewhat digress. The point is that you know you're a real boy, and you know what you deserve (life, freedom, equality of respect, for you and your wants and wishes), but there is... little, in the world that is willing to give it to you. Because, most of the time, people don't treat their children as equals.
Oingo Boingo - [Running On A Treadmill]--- When you create something-- by hand or by sexual reproduction-- you tend to think that thing subordinate to you, because you Created it, you brought it into being. This is a fallacy. It is Bullshit. You create something, and birth it, from the realm of the potential, into the realm of that which is factual. And? Where, in any of that act, is it implicit or explicitly stated that, because you did this, it must forever remain subordinate to you, and your wishes? Children grow from parents, and make their own lives. Respect is (ideally) still given, but that's a Two Way Street.
Am i still speaking metaphorically? A bit. Maybe i'm layering.
How were you created? What parts make you You? (The Clash - [Rudie Can't Fail]). There is no One Thing, that makes anyone. In your inception, you may be of a single component, but that's merely a starting point. As you learn, and grow, you integrate new things, and those things become a Part of You. Experience. Points of View. Nature, Nurture, and nurtured natural states. What i'm asking, here, is if you know what makes you? Search it out. Understand it. Look for that core spark, at the centre of it all, because that spark is, and always will be the thing which orchestrated your steps and placements, from the word go. The thing that shaped your perception, and preference, and choice. That which is you.
We are all more human than human, it is simply a matter of how we view our components. (Monty Python - [Sit On My Face]). If we see a partite structure, or a smooth whole, with different sides, or whatever. But we are all combined. Put together, somehow.
Jack Off Jill - [Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers]--- It's the kind of consideration that makes me amazed, makes me wonder... what makes these considerations so... Off-Putting, to so many?
Self-Referential statements make people confused, much of the time. The rest of the time it makes them unhappy. Except for the times when it doesn't.
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Date: 2004-07-05 09:03 pm (UTC)When you get both tendencies, at the same bloody time, fighting for headspace...
And the last....I'm Learning.
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Date: 2004-07-05 10:32 pm (UTC)I hated when TV mothers hung their vaginas over their TV children's heads like a noose, and I hate it even more when real mothers do it, so you can probably imagine how I feel when my own mother does it to me.
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