Prompted 2: No, Seriously, It's A Trilogy We Meant That All Along
Another prompted free write.
Ooh. I like that idea. Memo to self: maybe there's a "war" game in this mental image of people as strategic resources that occupy and generate network pathways? Something about memetic transfer, and infecting the right people to bring others into your camp? Maybe this is that mechanic for Candy Pimps I've been hunting for so long... Make it into a parody of the underground drug economy I've gotten so frustrated with, all about tapping into the right networks of connected people...
Already in progress, just in a rather counterproductive way. Mechanizing for recreation may efficiently bring process into view, hence encouraged: process' effects potential for highly degenerate when unobserved.
What I meant by that, around the robospeak, was that (god now that I've said that the temptation to get into robofuturespeak all the time is huge, I want to say "transluminal" just to say it, to get into all the slurpingly delicious variations on light, luminal, luminescent, luscious, all of them!) "people as strategic resources that occupy and generate network pathways" is pretty damn close to the current bleeding edge of advertising and some theories of governance, a tension between modernist and postmodernist views of people v. society. So making people play out that mindset recreationally can familiarize them with it and enable them to recognize the operation of that mindset elsewhere in their lives, to resist nonconsensual (no matter how sensual) roboticization.
This is a lot to do with watching The Persuaders today and watching people casually discuss the business of changing other people's minds without their consent. It creeped me the hell out.
Even with my attraction to hive minds and bottom-up networks, I think it's critical that informed consent exist. Frankly, I wish that Star Trek hadn't done so much with the Borg - they make great, great modern horror movie villains, the mechanization, the unwilling absorbition, the unification. I would totally like to see a creative work push the fear factor of the Borg further.
Especially if you contrasted it against a more optimistic mechanized vision of the future, a clique of cheery cyborgs but the problem is that because the Borg already have pop culture exposure, the heroes might end up more alien than the villains. Maybe some arthouse thing.
Intoxication with metal, enchantment, cold iron banishes illusion.
Pardon my slop.
Of course, nerdologist that I am, I start thinking of it in comic-book terms because that's probably the best combination of cheap and lets-you-fulfill-artistic-vision for this sort of thing, plus comic sluts (I mean almost exclusively male comic sluts here) already have an affinity for robots, so it'd go down much smoother, I reckon.
Back on point a little: the involuntary mechanization is most harmful when unobserved, so bringing it into the light can only be good, I think. And smushing it together with the drug culture could definitely be good fun, it's been just a throwaway joke for too long like the drugged out robots in Heavy Metal or Spider Jerusalem's psychoactive-addicted Maker-bot.
Done free-write for now.
Thanks, circuit-four!
Ooh. I like that idea. Memo to self: maybe there's a "war" game in this mental image of people as strategic resources that occupy and generate network pathways? Something about memetic transfer, and infecting the right people to bring others into your camp? Maybe this is that mechanic for Candy Pimps I've been hunting for so long... Make it into a parody of the underground drug economy I've gotten so frustrated with, all about tapping into the right networks of connected people...
Already in progress, just in a rather counterproductive way. Mechanizing for recreation may efficiently bring process into view, hence encouraged: process' effects potential for highly degenerate when unobserved.
What I meant by that, around the robospeak, was that (god now that I've said that the temptation to get into robofuturespeak all the time is huge, I want to say "transluminal" just to say it, to get into all the slurpingly delicious variations on light, luminal, luminescent, luscious, all of them!) "people as strategic resources that occupy and generate network pathways" is pretty damn close to the current bleeding edge of advertising and some theories of governance, a tension between modernist and postmodernist views of people v. society. So making people play out that mindset recreationally can familiarize them with it and enable them to recognize the operation of that mindset elsewhere in their lives, to resist nonconsensual (no matter how sensual) roboticization.
This is a lot to do with watching The Persuaders today and watching people casually discuss the business of changing other people's minds without their consent. It creeped me the hell out.
Even with my attraction to hive minds and bottom-up networks, I think it's critical that informed consent exist. Frankly, I wish that Star Trek hadn't done so much with the Borg - they make great, great modern horror movie villains, the mechanization, the unwilling absorbition, the unification. I would totally like to see a creative work push the fear factor of the Borg further.
Especially if you contrasted it against a more optimistic mechanized vision of the future, a clique of cheery cyborgs but the problem is that because the Borg already have pop culture exposure, the heroes might end up more alien than the villains. Maybe some arthouse thing.
Intoxication with metal, enchantment, cold iron banishes illusion.
Pardon my slop.
Of course, nerdologist that I am, I start thinking of it in comic-book terms because that's probably the best combination of cheap and lets-you-fulfill-artistic-vision for this sort of thing, plus comic sluts (I mean almost exclusively male comic sluts here) already have an affinity for robots, so it'd go down much smoother, I reckon.
Back on point a little: the involuntary mechanization is most harmful when unobserved, so bringing it into the light can only be good, I think. And smushing it together with the drug culture could definitely be good fun, it's been just a throwaway joke for too long like the drugged out robots in Heavy Metal or Spider Jerusalem's psychoactive-addicted Maker-bot.
Done free-write for now.
Thanks, circuit-four!