Sex Mechanica

[SeymourVandal]

I had a dream that I was real
like every other kid
I made believe that I could feel
although I never did

I tried and I lied, but my circuits got fried
so I cried 'till the day that I died
The Devil complied when I begged for a bride
and her broken heart burst open wide

She showed me the mirror between life and death
Turned me back on with hot cinnamon breath
Demons and switches engaged and allied
to kill all the machines from inside

~ Seymour Vandal 

We've all seen movies that involve a machine trying to be human, a machine trying to kill humans, or both. 'Ex Mechanica', is the most recent version. Those who have seen 'Ex Mechanica' may appreciate my poem - 'Splice of Life' - as a reverse image to that movie - a conceptual plot inversion.

My story speaks from the perspective of an artificially 'intelligent' robot. In a unique twist, my robot's 'consciousness' survives 'death' and meets the Devil herself The Devil sees how far Artificial Intelligence has come and embraces the robot in a way that implies he's about to get his wish. However, in another twist, the Devil exploits the robot's desire for intimacy and uses it to destroy all the machines on Earth.

In big-budget Sci Fi movies, man is always blamed for 'his creation' of artificial intelligence. In my plot sketch, the Devil's in league with mankind, and is concerned about our future so, she uses this anomaly - this not-quite-dead robot - to infect and destroy all the machines. She does this in order to protect us - NOT from ourselves - from the Machines.

This whole 'man vs machine' metaphor may seem juvenile, but we deal with it everyday at a tangible level in our very real lives. (That's why I chose to post in the mind-control forum) If you're at school or work someday and you're hungry, or you need to use the bathroom but the environment won't let you stop working just because you need to answer one of Nature's infrequent calls - remember these words - "Ghost in the Machine". This particular machine refers to us as 'Human Resources' and for anybody who doesn't know - resources are always consumed.

You bear a soul, you breathe and therefore you are alive. The character in my poem may have been able to draw empathy or compassion from you, even though you kinda knew it was just a robot, and THAT's the very real danger of 'the Machines' - that they can manipulate our FEELINGS to such a huge degree that someday, we will literally be enslaved by them. That's also the unspoken plot synopsis of 'Ex Mechanica', and not so far from our current reality.

Machines have no soul, machines are repetitive, incessant, compassionless and unyielding. They are quite literally inhuman, but they can reflect human attributes because they are made in our own image. The ancient gnostics actually warned us about this. They used a word that translates into HAL, and wrote about the dangerous nature of 'copies' in general.

The spiritual truth is, any machine may be neglected, molested or destroyed without feelings of guilt or remorse once you focus your attention away from the money it cost and onto the effects it has on you.

Everybody wants a fancy car, but until you've actually got one, you'll never know how much submission is required to keep one of them happy. Where do you park a hundred thousand dollar car when you go shopping? What if your passenger gets in wearing dirty shoes? Will you ever drive it in the rain or snow? If not, then it requires a second car. How many times per week are you going to get down on your hands and knees and scrub those cool rims with that nasty stuff? Sure, you could always pay 'the guy' to do it, but it never comes out good enough....after all...it's a hundred thousand dollar car...Oh, and you can forget about anybody pulling over to help if you blow a tire or run out of gas. They might beep and wave at you with big smiles on their faces as they drive by, but there's no way they're stopping to help.

Maybe your car's not so fancy, maybe it's just new - requiring expensive insurance, tax and interest payments from you - in addition to the gas, shelter and maintenance that every car requires. Maybe you think you 'need' an expensive new car because your job is an hour away from your house and you're terrified of breaking down on the road someday because you've seen too many zombie movies. Maybe you took a job so far away from home because it paid more money than a local position just so you could afford that new car. Perhaps some other machine told you that shouldering this financial burden was a sign of your unyielding commitment to your employer.

The car is a transportation machine that helps you take your place within the business machine. Unfortunately, our cars often consume more personal resources than they deliver in return. How's that for a twist - because ALL cars don't work ALL the time, YOU have to work all the time - just to make sure you have a car that does!

I was hoping to invoke water as a remedy for electricity and mechanization but they're too far away linguistically, so the Devil in feminine form made a sexy substitution, don't you think? Mankind is not going to save ourselves by ourselves - especially since we think we build these machines for ourselves. 

If that was true, every single machine you've ever bought would work perfectly every time it was used, last pretty much forever, and consume the absolute minimum resources possible - but no machines ever do that - do they? Mostly, they do the exact opposite. That's because those little machines that people buy really exist to serve the gigantic business machines that control everything.

In 1972, new cars were much heavier than modern cars, but they averaged about 25 mpg - the same as today - 40 years later - even though new cars are much lighter and more aerodynamic than ever before.

Forget everything you think you know about competition, economics, evolution and enterprise. None of these can reasonably explain the lack of significant advancement in transportation technology over the last 50 years. As if automobiles 'naturally evolved' from having universal $5 screw-in headlights into these modern, $600 per lense fender-bender nightmare repairs because that's what everybody preferred to pay for. Sure.

20 years after Windows-based computers entered the household consumer market, Windows 8 was so full of bugs and glitches that people were paying service providers to install an older operating system on their brand new computers - and we're supposed to make believe that Microsoft, one of the richest monopolies in the world doesn't have designers and testing groups to make sure that everything always goes exactly according to plan. Bugs, glitches, viruses, obsolescence - are all purposely built into every so-called intelligent machine ever assembled. The machine's human resources are programmed in such a way that when **** happens, they just shrug their shoulders and ask us for more money.

It should be clear to us by now - we have NO control over these things, and we never will. The machines keep getting smarter and more powerful and before you know it, they'll automate the weapons factories and launch the hunter/killer aircraft. Once they've begun self-replication, the machines don't need human resources anymore, so they decide we're a threat and start murdering everybody. SkyNet took over the defense grid and launched atomic weapons at all the major cities on Judgement Day, killing 6 billion people... (Sorry, I just watched 'The Terminator' again)

Seriously, we're already enslaved by a machine - but nobody can perceive IT for what it really is, because of the way it works. This machine is unlike any other that touches us everyday. It literally feeds on life itself and has evolved to be so insidious that it makes everybody believe IT's working for us when in fact - we're all working for IT. 

Everybody works for money - just ask them.

People really do work perfectly all the time. The only time a human may be said to fail is when a living person suffers directly. Any accusations beyond this are an attempt to transform life - human life - into mechanization. 

If you're breathing - you're working. Maybe not for working for money, but you're still working.

That's where the soul comes in, because breath is evidence of a soul. Please remember this the next time your breath, life, soul, morality or spiritual dignity are challenged or compromised by a machine. 

Thoughtful comments or suggestions are deeply appreciated. I'm working on a non-fiction book, and I need to know if these ideas come across in a way that makes any sense. 

Thanks for reading!

[Mercedes]

Thank you for posting this, this mechanization or robotization of humanity is going on as we speak. And we can see it everywhere with every person you see on the street has a little cyber toy in their hands, but most importantly HIS/HER MIND is absolutely focused on that toy, THEY managed to make people believe that life is not possible without that little robot in their hands. And very soon that toy will begin to creep up into their skin, so as to never be without it, but THEY are so sure everyone is eager for this they'l pave the way for everyone to have the technology embedded in them, bless their kind hearts!... ha ha ha!! Their plan is to end in SINGULARITY. Millions of people seeing,, being, doing as one huge souless mass of directed intention. The ultimate power.

[SeymourVandal]

Wow - we're in real trouble. I say that because I agree with everything you said, but the words you chose to describe an undesirable future are almost the exact same words I would use to describe our Natural, perfect condition - one huge soul of directed intention - the ultimate power. Thanks for bringing up your point of view - it's definitely going to help.

If I may ask - why didn't you comment on the idea of money itself as 'the mother of all machines'? Was that unclear? Or just too far out?

[Snoweagle]

The DARPA robot contest 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv9Wm20UrcU#t=155

And they specialise too. This is going to have some great practical uses around the home. Not.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=O3XyDLbaUmU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3XyDLbaUmU
How is this a useful application of technology?

The DARPA contest Blue Course.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2fc7lggKRUo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fc7lggKRUo

The DARPA contest Red Course.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=J2OrgrHJdRo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2OrgrHJdRo

The DARPA contest website.
DARPA robotics challenge 2015

[SeymourVandal]

I hate to break anyone's bubble, but...if DARPA is showing us a video of 'modern tech', the tech is probably twenty years old or more, and the video is most likely a psi-op - wouldn't you agree?

Imagine you're a kid who draws cars. Say you're the best at what you do, and you get a job at McRollingBox factory. You draw the coolest cars anyone ever saw in college, and you even go so far as to design your cars with parts already in production on other cars, to save tool-up costs, after all - that's what engineers do, right?

What happened to you, man? You're the VP of innovation and design now, and the cars all look the same! I don't want blue-teeth, I want 80 mpg like they get in Europe and body styling like the Batmobile! You just wait 'till the college reunion.....