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ataraxion2014-04-12 04:38 pm
vivelavenir) wrote in ataraxion2014-04-12 04:38 pm
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A query, for the ship...
I wonder, with what we do know about our predicament; and I admit, my knowledge is little when it comes to the gadgetry and computations that the running of this vessel requires; and what we do know about M. 'Smiley', as he is like to be called...
Well, how to put this?
[A pause and a breath, before tilting his head just softly and staring up at the camera.]
Smiley may not be human, is it so? This has been presented to me as an option. Not human, but digital?
And he has been upon the networks, in order to mock us. But the mocking has had a defined purpose, I have seen. Threats, that we "had better" fix problems-- both technical, and human in the case of the mutineer-- before it costs us our lives. That we "had better" keep the ship running. Yet, if it were not his will that it be fixed too, were it not in his best interest also, would he not use fear as a means of making us do his bidding?
If Smiley would guide us to to save our lives by saving the ship; perhaps it may mean that it is the improper course of action, after all? Perhaps we ensure his-- or it's-- safety by ensuring our own? And in doing so, we too may be responsible in part for leaving this vessel open to stealing more lives from their homes, more people from their families...
In other words, the question I would like to pose is this: If we knew, for fact, that the only way to stop the terrors on this ship and the kidnappings seen each month was in destroying the ship, thus protecting any future targets-- be they like us, or like those pirates, who were seen to summary execution...
Would you be willing to pay that price, to see that the right thing be done?
Dulce et decorum est pro mores mori.
Forgive me, if it is too morbid in thought. The question is surely a difficult one.
I wonder, with what we do know about our predicament; and I admit, my knowledge is little when it comes to the gadgetry and computations that the running of this vessel requires; and what we do know about M. 'Smiley', as he is like to be called...
Well, how to put this?
[A pause and a breath, before tilting his head just softly and staring up at the camera.]
Smiley may not be human, is it so? This has been presented to me as an option. Not human, but digital?
And he has been upon the networks, in order to mock us. But the mocking has had a defined purpose, I have seen. Threats, that we "had better" fix problems-- both technical, and human in the case of the mutineer-- before it costs us our lives. That we "had better" keep the ship running. Yet, if it were not his will that it be fixed too, were it not in his best interest also, would he not use fear as a means of making us do his bidding?
If Smiley would guide us to to save our lives by saving the ship; perhaps it may mean that it is the improper course of action, after all? Perhaps we ensure his-- or it's-- safety by ensuring our own? And in doing so, we too may be responsible in part for leaving this vessel open to stealing more lives from their homes, more people from their families...
In other words, the question I would like to pose is this: If we knew, for fact, that the only way to stop the terrors on this ship and the kidnappings seen each month was in destroying the ship, thus protecting any future targets-- be they like us, or like those pirates, who were seen to summary execution...
Would you be willing to pay that price, to see that the right thing be done?
Dulce et decorum est pro mores mori.
Forgive me, if it is too morbid in thought. The question is surely a difficult one.
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[Decided. Or at least, he hoped that was the point of the literature... bullying ducks hardly seemed... a merits topic to seriously explore in sonnets.]
Or perhaps Andersen had a mean friend who did not very much like ducks and in a manner like so, published a story he had made as a joke for him? I have one such mean kind of friend-- who I fear has detailed plans to ruin me by telling others I have recited and Ode to a Moth. [Returned, with a lively voice, looking pleased with his own comparison.]
You do molt information: in fact, have you not just done so? It is charming, and a wonderful feature, and you ought never change I hope.
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[And then he is frowning, rather thoughtfully.]
You know, it never mentions HOW the ugly duckling's egg wound up with those of its siblings or if it joined them when it was too small to remember, but it IS lucky, I suppose. And yes, the ducklings who were so cruel as all of that DID rather get what they deserved. One wonders what the children it was read to must take from all of that. If they wish to be the swan, or learn more that bullying is wrong and avoid it so they do not become...
Or, your explanation...
[And he is shaking his head there, then just laughing a bit.]
Ah, I need not to tell everyone of Ode to a Moth. It could be published anonymously if you would truly like.
And thank you for that, actually. If information were so easy to share as molted feathers...can you imagine though?