TRUTH, IF YOU SAY SO

TRUTH?

IF YOU SAY SO

AI can perfectly reproduce a voice

after listening for three seconds,

and there are programs to

manipulate faces, body language,

backgrounds, and events.

So now that we are conditioned

to have on our persons something

electronic that is always on,

our faces buried in its screen,

we have been assimilated

and resistance is irrelevant.

Reviews

[Lorry]

Whoever would thunk that our Denise would have been self made and not global warning.
It is only a matter of time before the bots come up with captcha's that humans can't read and then we'll all slowly die while on hold to another robot to complain that we can't access anything because we can't read those bloody squiggly lines!
Buy apart from that Vol, ain't technology grand?
😃

[Vol]

Lorry,
We've been dying a long time... Just ask D. H. Lawrence...
For God’s sake, let us be men
not monkeys minding machines
or sitting with our tails curled
while the machine amuses us, the radio or
film or gramophone.

Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

— From Pansies (1929)

[Lorry]

They ain't half dragging out our suffering though, ain't they?
The easier tech is meant to make our lives the more it moves us from human contact. Put that together with having to repeat everything three times because the robot doesn't understand my accent and is it anywonder and so very ironic that the average year you are more likely to die is the age you retire at, while the women just for spite all live to 104!

[Vol]

You know, though, same with all the Pakistanis and Indonesians doing "Customer service" reps everyone uses...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I still rebel...finally got a cell phone but never have it on me. I want to be free...
Live free. Live free or short circuit.
j.

[Vol]

Erin,
In Texas, where a quick trip to town is sixty miles of empty ranchland, you gotta have a way to call for help...

[Einstein Noodle]

i love your sarcasm and insight in this one... i was thinking the other day, Vol, ... why on God's green earth do we give any credence to an "intelligence" that is artificial?? ... i love your message sir.
E.

[Vol]

Thanks, man! I'm just reiterating a D. H. Lawrence poem called "Let Us Be Men."
""For God’s sake, let us be men
not monkeys minding machines
or sitting with our tails curled
while the machine amuses us, the radio or
film or gramophone.

Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

— From Pansies (1929)

[Einstein Noodle]

:) ............. nice updating!

[K. Louis]

This is a pretty deep dive into the implications of technology and its influence on society. Nicely written.

[Vol]

We're doomed...

[GlendaK]

Back when the Bar Codes started appearing on merchandise, I knew it was the beginning of the end... We're only human. It's like Final Destination. Everything we do thinking we are genius will bring us to our demise.
The Bible says "We always think ourselves wiser BUT we are never coming to the full knowledge of the truth".
Awesome as always, Vol.

[Vol]

Insatiable,
Thank you! I remember a discussion we had in high school back in the sixties about how thin the veneer modern civilization lives under. Today's constant bombardment of information overload, light pollution, noise pollution, political pollution it is a wonder we care what happens next. That is why my favorite scripture is: Thessalonians 4:11 says, "and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you".
Before i movew out west, any sanity I had was kept alive by a walk in the woods...
Vol

[GlendaK]

Vol, you are the sanest person I know. Is that a word? lol sanest?

[Vol]

Insatiable,
You know what m'lady? There is an old saying that "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." I say, In the land of the insane, the man who isn't ... gets burned at the stake."
Vol

[Pete]

sounds like an episode of star trek. can't say we weren't warned that it would come this.

[Vol]

Pete,
I'll probably be pasting this on all the responses to the poem...
D.H. Lawrence...
"For God’s sake, let us be men
not monkeys minding machines
or sitting with our tails curled
while the machine amuses us, the radio or
film or gramophone.

Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

— From Pansies (1929)

[Everett Dulin]

One of my friends who’s been a parent for however long once told me “the worst part of parenthood is seeing yourself in them.” I feel like AI is a heartbreaking reflection of ourselves. Where our mundane and greed becomes its food, and our art and experience is just another math question.

[Vol]

Everett,
Hahaha... I love my two boys and enjoy seeing their versions of me...
WE are doomed without an apocalypse... and we don't care beyond whispered discussions about how badly we are doing...
Vol