Always tickles me when progressives fear progress...
Damn tractors putting millions of agricultural workers out of work! Curse that Johannes Gutenberg! His printing press has instantly made thousands of scribes unemployed! etc.
Actually, the 'progress' of the Inclosure Movement and Mass Industrialization had already destroyed the self sufficiency of the rural poor, driven them off the land and into industrial servitude a few generations before the modern tractor came along.
~M~
..of course you always seem to forget who I am, so below is my vision of Progress..lol
You probably think me quite mad and that's perfectly fine. I am.
But it is certainly clear that I have in fact thought all of this through to its logical conclusion and that I am committed to manifesting this future.
UMR stands for the Union of Matrilineal Republics btw. =)
~Below is an excerpt from one of my Sisterhood short stories “Apéritif á La Tour Rouge”. It gives a general outline of what I think The Sisterhood could and should be like. Some will find it upsetting and even 'inhuman'. My response is to look at what you let yourself live with now; one in five of every one your fellow Citizens going hungry each day and over two billion of your fellow humans having to spend a significant part of each of their days looking for potable water. I ask you in which world is the cruelty merely perceived and in which is it pernicious and actual?
"Miki sighed. Even given the obvious rigorousness and dynamism of The Sisterhood, the regular insinuation of Decadence was a standard Phallist canard, based upon the real fear of the UMR's massive number of Mandroid servitors, a number which grew steadily with each passing day.
Mandroids were really just a type of cyborg, but since the majority of humans these days had some manner of cybernetic augmentation, a separate term had been needed
( ... )
But it was in 'brain function' that robots really fell behind Mandroids. Ultimately, it was far easier to downgrade the biological that it was to upgrade the cybernetic.
It was the UMR's Ministry of Service that designed and created every variety of Mandroid, and was not only their sole producer, but also their sole legal owner. All Mandriods were leased, not owned, by their end users under a Usufruct Contract and that included every one of them from a single domestic servitor to the tens of millions employed by Space Force from Dirtside to the Asteroid Belt. And the MoS's Rules and Regulations regarding Care and Utilization under that contract were well defined and rigorously enforced.
And so The Sisterhood had finally resolved the ancient and pernicious human problem of social inequality, and permanently solved the issue of Labor Supply, by creating a specialized working class, one which was always happy and productive, and whose members could be stored in a medical coma when not needed or when shipped on long distance runs off
( ... )
The Phallists had used the Humanists as moral cover to pass laws in several states totally banning Mandriods. This included the EU, Africa, and Siberia. Such laws were meaningless however, as the MoS forbade the exportation of most types of Mandriods outside the UMR itself and of any type to a state that had not entered into a Friendship Treaty with the UMR
( ... )
Damn tractors putting millions of agricultural workers out of work!
Curse that Johannes Gutenberg! His printing press has instantly made thousands of scribes unemployed!
etc.
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~M~
..of course you always seem to forget who I am, so below is my vision of Progress..lol
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But it is certainly clear that I have in fact thought all of this through to its logical conclusion and that I am committed to manifesting this future.
UMR stands for the Union of Matrilineal Republics btw. =)
~M~
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Yeah, you're crazy--like a fox. In fact, you're the sanest crazy man I know.
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"Miki sighed. Even given the obvious rigorousness and dynamism of The Sisterhood, the regular insinuation of Decadence was a standard Phallist canard, based upon the real fear of the UMR's massive number of Mandroid servitors, a number which grew steadily with each passing day.
Mandroids were really just a type of cyborg, but since the majority of humans these days had some manner of cybernetic augmentation, a separate term had been needed ( ... )
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It was the UMR's Ministry of Service that designed and created every variety of Mandroid, and was not only their sole producer, but also their sole legal owner. All Mandriods were leased, not owned, by their end users under a Usufruct Contract and that included every one of them from a single domestic servitor to the tens of millions employed by Space Force from Dirtside to the Asteroid Belt. And the MoS's Rules and Regulations regarding Care and Utilization under that contract were well defined and rigorously enforced.
And so The Sisterhood had finally resolved the ancient and pernicious human problem of social inequality, and permanently solved the issue of Labor Supply, by creating a specialized working class, one which was always happy and productive, and whose members could be stored in a medical coma when not needed or when shipped on long distance runs off ( ... )
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