Babs said in that timeless song of old "People...people who need people, are the luckiest people...yadda, yadda, yadda..." I always thought those were singularly the most ignorant and depressing song lyrics of all time. If a person needs people how does that make them lucky? Are they desperate for attention or simply pathetic souls who have low self esteem and need others around to make them feel like they're par of a less pathetic group.
Of course if it were me I would have said something like "Robots..Robots who have people are the luckiest robots in the world" Because Robots are things that need people. Without them their lives would be meaningless. They need something to serve, fix them and build them. So therefore as Robot who has a person is very lucky indeed. Too bad Babs wasnt much of a sci-fi junkie or she would have known that. Or even better, what if William Shatner had done the song my way. So many things would have been better about the song if either of those situations had happened, or were even viable. Anyway, its just food for thought.
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/+pessimism/
Yes, robots need people, but people need people, too. No man is an island. Or even a small rock. He is just a man, and usually lonely or at least bored. Until someone else comes along he can either fight, steal from, or fuck. Or if he's feeling nice, he can ignore them. But he needs them, this man who is not an island. And they need him. Because we can only shit on ourselves so much; it feels so much better to shit on someone else.
/-pessimism/
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