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16 de Mayo, 2007
Defector From the Killer Robot Forces
Categorized under Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: Change, Format, Hope, racism, White Supremacy
I SHOW YOU, NOW, one of the most original, and heartfelt posts I've seen from el otro lado—that is, the other side of the white-brown thing—that talks about the White Lens, or the Haunted Land—or other things I've framed and named for my own landscape, but that we all talk about here in the brown blogosfere in our own ways. It is interesting because it is honesty, for once, not redundant Wite Magik Attax. Not purposeless sparring or tiring denials of obvious truth. The narrator is brave, and on the edge of his awareness.
He tells us a tale of a Spring when a strange awakening blooms:
(Warning: Tom makes heavy use of something called metaphor, so dont make me request R. Mildred make the rounds afterward!)
...[T]he lawn looks so nice and neat after it's been mowed. Sometimes people compliment me on all the work that I put into cutting the grass. That feels good.But something strange has been happening this Spring. The more I read about the rise of the machines and the extermination of humanity, the more I start to imagine that I'm a killer robot from the future myself. Sometimes I catch my mind drifting into bizarre daydreams. In these daydreams, my whole family are killer robots from way back.
—Killer Robots from the Future (Science Fiction Therapy), Automatic Preference
Okay! It's interesting, too, because it uses killer robots! (And hope.)
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Comentarios (15)
Tom dijo:
Thankn u, man!!!!11!
Palabras por Tom spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 01:34 PM
Sir Jorge dijo:
I can't buy into the idea of robotic takeover...I just can't.
Palabras por Sir Jorge spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 03:49 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
well, i wouldn't be so extreme as to say i think it's important for you or anyone else to actually "buy into" the whole thing or see yourself or anyone else you know in a "robotic killer" sort of way!...i'm just saying it's an interesting and original way of conveying an experience of looking around and seeing what history has been altered to show, vs what are other ways that others might be seeing it the whole time, and where you fit in to that. and where you want to. it's a person having an intense awakening to something...and to me that is always worth a second look. in this case i think it is. but i'm not the Robotic Commander, so you are free to not enjoy it, too!
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 03:56 PM
Raine dijo:
Thanks for linking to that, nezua. That was great.
Palabras por Raine spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 05:52 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
el gusto es mio, Raine! i thought so, too.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 05:56 PM
Pat Logan dijo:
I bookmarked your blog. Looks good!
Palabras por Pat Logan spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 06:26 PM
Tom dijo:
Dude, that pic so looks just like me!
Palabras por Tom spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 07:43 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
okay, tom...just don't forget to give yourself an oil soak before you sit down and tell the binary loadlifters and vaporators where it's at.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 07:50 PM
Tom dijo:
Pat thanks!
Nezua, lol.
Palabras por Tom spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 08:50 PM
Rafael dijo:
Pretty good essay/post. I like robots, I just don't one to think myself one of them, alas too late....
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 10:09 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
no, rafa...i see you more as a dude with a spy radio in his ice-cream cone, for sure.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 16 de Mayo, 2007 at 10:17 PM
Rafael dijo:
I don't WANT....my typing is getting worse by the second!
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 17 de Mayo, 2007 at 12:28 AM
Tom dijo:
Rafael I hvea smaem typg porblem. Garage says neede new fniger bushinsgs nd wirign in my left arm.
Palabras por Tom spat forth on el 17 de Mayo, 2007 at 07:12 AM
Rafael dijo:
Cool, tasty and functional...thats a combo I can live with. Make mine soft serve vanilla with loads of chocolate syrup! Yum!
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 17 de Mayo, 2007 at 02:04 PM
Tom dijo:
Sir Jorge,
Maybe you're right. But if it wasn't killer robots ... then what was it? Even the Romans, horribly cruel though they were, would just make an example one city at a time, Fallujah style.
It has to be some kind of people who have the ability to turn themselves into robots under extreme moral stress.
Palabras por Tom spat forth on el 23 de Mayo, 2007 at 06:11 AM