{"id":25566,"date":"2023-05-06T22:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T22:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/?p=25566"},"modified":"2024-03-26T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:19:10","slug":"the-fear-of-becoming-an-automaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/2023\/05\/06\/the-fear-of-becoming-an-automaton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fear Of Becoming An Automaton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wish now to speak of the greatest fear known to humankind – the fear of becoming an automaton<\/em>. The fear of unexpectedly becoming an automaton. It could happen to you<\/em><\/strong>, you know. It could happen so very easily.<\/h4>\n

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It’s as easy as falling off a log, isn’t that what they say? So damn easy. One minute you’re going about your normal everyday business, for example let’s say that you’re preparing a nutritious meal, let’s say that you\u2019re watching your favourite programme on TV, let’s say that you\u2019re sitting in the park enjoying the sunny weather, or whatever, and the next you\u2019ve turned into an automaton.<\/em> Can you imagine that? Can you just bloody imagine it?<\/h4>\n

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\u2018Jesus lads\u2019, you say, \u2018one minute I was a proper real live human being, the next minute I\u2019m a fucking automaton. Can you credit it? Can you believe it?\u2019 Well, that’s something to write home about, as they say. That’s a bit of a bummer alright, for sure. That’s one hell of a thing to happen and the thing is of course that you’d never expect it. You just wouldn’t see it coming, would you?<\/h4>\n

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You wouldn’t be expecting it and you wouldn’t notice<\/em> it either! By God you wouldn’t. No way. You’ll never see it happen because you are now an automaton and so you’re hardly going to know the difference, are you? What would an automaton actually \u2018know\u2019 anyway? Automata don’t know shit by virtue of the fact that they are <\/em>automata – that’s the exact point that we’re making here. That\u2019s the whole point, the whole point is that when you’re an automaton then you don’t know that you are because you don’t know anything<\/em>. You just give the appearance of knowing stuff.<\/h4>\n

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It is a Great Fear to be sure. Truly a Great Fear, a real humdinger of a fear. No one can deny this and that’s a fact. Either a fact or factoid \u2013 it\u2019s one or the other. Some kind of a thing like that. Suppose it were to happen to you<\/em>, after all? Suppose you just suddenly turned into an old rusty automaton, plodding through the steps of its weary old cycle, saying and thinking the same old things over and over again whilst being under the sad illusion that you’re breaking new ground. \u2018Look at me,\u2019 you say, \u2018I’m doing all this cool stuff and I\u2019m having a great life…\u2019<\/h4>\n

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One minute you\u2019re a real live human being and the next you\u2019re merely going through the motions, like a toy that\u2019s slowly winding down. It could already have happened to you, so aren’t you even just a little <\/em>bit scared? Shouldn’t you go and get tested? Shouldn’t you head over to your nearest testing centre? I know what you’re thinking now, you’re thinking \u2018Well it could have happened to you <\/em>without you noticing, you stupid git, whilst you\u2019re trying to put the blame on someone else. There\u2019s you casting doubt on the integrity of your fellow human beings. Saying that they’re losers. How do we know that you\u2019re<\/em> not a bot?\u2019<\/h4>\n

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You’re right of course. I can’t prove that I’m not an automaton. I could be speaking out of my arse and I don\u2019t suppose it wouldn’t be the first time either. What do I know anyway? I\u2019m talking just for the sake of talking, I\u2019m yapping on interminable just for the sake of yapping on. Going through my broken little dance every day, foolishly imagining that I’m having a valid and meaningful experience. \u2018I’m having a worthwhile and significant experience,\u2019 I tell myself, \u2018I’m leading a valid and meaningful life\u2026\u2019<\/h4>\n

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\u2018Do you know that thing?\u2019 I asked, \u2018do you know that thing where you’re controlling for all you’re worth, controlling like some kind of mad bugger, trying to achieve the right outcome, scheming away in the privacy of your own head, etc., when suddenly it dawns on you that everything you’re doing is actually quite meaningless?<\/em>\u2019 You\u2019re depressed, you see – you were trying to get the good thing to happen, just like you\u2019re always<\/em> trying to get the good thing to happen, when all of a sudden you realise to your horror that there isn’t any such thing<\/em>. You realize with terrible clarity that there\u2019s no such thing as \u2018a good thing that\u2019s going to happen.\u2019<\/h4>\n

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I wish now to speak of the greatest fear known to humankind – the fear of becoming an automaton. The fear of unexpectedly becoming an automaton. It could happen to you, you know. It could happen so very easily. \u00a0 It’s as easy as falling off a log, isn’t that what they say? So damn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25566"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27575,"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25566\/revisions\/27575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nullworlds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}