robots

the danger existed where the human race was in peril of being taken over by machines. but we have passed that fork in the road of technological development without taking it. Surprisingly, it may come to you, this took place many centuries ago. when we deviated away in simple methods from magic and other forms of meta science essential for the development of truly humanoid and intelligent machinery and chose a completely different path of technical evolution down which we have strayed forever since.

But we are worse off for it. We have turned into robots ourselves. we are nameless faceless beings who cover ourselves within a sheen of illusion giving us a chance to color our mundane lives while we go on being nothing much other than one track minded machines slaving for things that we have been almost genetically pre-programmed to expect out of life.  safety, security, love, self actualization yes, the ‘hierarchy’ of needs.

Some of us have expanded our horizons a bit. By no means are we non-robots but we are a bit brainier than who we see and deem to be ‘lesser’ beings. we rule over them. we are the classes of power. we revel in exploitation and we tell them to do what we want them to. we do it inadvertently. we are not organized as a whole which exploits, contrary to popular belief. though we occasionally form pockets of coorporation, like some of the great organizations known as multinationals but mostly we are in it for our own gain. we are robots as well, but we are more powerful. yet we use that power to further a cause as petty and as mindless as those ‘lesser’ beings we call workers. or the masses.

Looking at Earth from a galactic point of view. i am saddened by our lack of vision. Our brains themselves seem to be incapable of thinking a few miles beyond our atmosphere. That is not to say there are not visionary thinkers capable of looking at Earth in a universal context, but how many are here? how many for instance, would not think me a deranged a fool upon reading this?

we are robots in a box. trapped inside it by the limits of our own vision. destined to fight each other or unite for the destruction of a party of others in false guises of patriotism. destined to use what power is given us to  abuse those below us. destined to never see ourselves as a species and a race that has unlimited potential for prosperity in the vast reaches of the infinite universe.

It makes me sad sometimes. makes me stare into the distant skies with a sense of hopelessness for us. when will we ever learn?