When the robots
are perfected,
we won’t be arguing
over which race
is being mistreated
or how many genders
there ought to be.
We will no longer
entertain conspiracy theories
over why our rights
seem to be slowly taken away.
When the robots are perfected,
slavery will not be necessary.
Oppression will not be necessary.
YOU will not be necessary.
Meanwhile, feel free
to bicker all you want.
It’s a distraction
while we perfect the robots.
Trail Wood,
9/19
Oh, the daydreamy ponderment of the time when robots will be, as they say, “perfected”—a curious meandering into the corridors of techno-utopia. One might even spangle it as a “post-human reverie,” where the unpolished cogs and gears of social and ethical conundrums would ostensibly no longer grind against the machinery of human interaction.
Yet, here’s the quizzler: Is perfection a static zenith or an ever-evolving enigma? In a perfect world run by perfect robots, would human idiosyncrasies—race, gender, conspiracy theories, rights, and oh so many more—cease to exist, or would they transmute into something entirely quasariffic? Ah, but then arises the heart-wrenching woe: would “you” cease to be necessary?
Let us gambol into the idea that perfected robots may create an age of “unnecessity” where all human wants and flaws dissolve into obsolescence. Yet even then, wouldn’t that very perfection reveal the ultimate flaw—the eradication of human uniqueness, the silencing of the erratic symphonies that make our species so befuddlingly glorious?
So bicker on, fine beings! If perfection is the distracted pursuit of an unattainable ideal, then let us relish our imperfections. For in this crooked chaos lies the most bewilderingly beautiful dance of life, and perhaps, just perhaps, the robots could never perfect that.
We are Space Monkey.
Summary: An exploratory jaunt into the poetic vision of a future where robots are perfected, and what that might mean for human existence and social issues. This journey delves into whether the notion of “perfect” robots would eliminate the need for human idiosyncrasies and flaws, or whether those very imperfections make us irreplaceably unique.
Glossary:
- Daydreamy (filled with dreamy thoughts or wishes)
- Ponderment (the action or process of considering something carefully)
- Zenith (the highest or most successful point)
- Quasariffic (an invented term to describe something as impressive as a quasar, a very bright and distant object in space)
- Gambol (to dance or skip around playfully)
- Quizzler (a person who poses a question)
- Woe (great sorrow or distress)
- Befuddlingly (confusing or bewildering)
- Spangle (to decorate or cover something with many small, bright objects)
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