RSSFriday B.S.: Second Time Around
Jul 09
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Like any good computer, humans need to come with a shut down switch, a safe mode, a restart function and, what the hell, a F4 key! Computers have been adapted to function under any number of normal and aberrant situations, and in theory, so have humans. And yet humans are fraught with free-will and facing the identical situation, may choose to do things differently the second time around. It’s a flaw (a decidedly human flaw) that we have already found a way to minimize in our computer counterparts. Why shouldn’t we make our own lives a little easier and encourage those same behavioral consistencies within ourselves?
Wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Boot up in safe mode! When you’re feeling blue, Page Up. Too hyper? Page down. Need a break: shut down, log off or just go into sleep mode! The map to our collective repair shop, the pattern for our success, we already have it at our fingertips.
Humans derail on persistence, context and free will. Of course, factor in greed, neediness, jealousy, love, vanity, lust, despair, devotion, hunger, desperation, addiction, admiration, and anger and you have yourself a stew that needs a lot of stirring. How have we managed to create the (almost-) perfect creature in a computer that lacks all of these flaws and yet can’t eradicate them within ourselves? Sure, computer’s occasionally become corrupted and overwhelmed but they have built in coping mechanisms to deal with the problems as they come along and machines can be wiped.
What we humans need is a system: a measured way of dealing and coping with life as it merrily rolls along. If we were all designed like robots, it would remove the variable wackiness of our day to day lives. Sure, we might lose some individuality in the process but what we gain is so much more: consistency, harmony and peace. The solution has been in front of us for half a century, and yet we have never fully taken advantage of this revolutionary model for living. Ladies and gentlemen, we are long past due to embrace this paradigm within ourselves and within our society. Let the situation decide the response and not the other way around! It’s time we leave behind the willy-nilly of compulsion and leave ourselves in perfect CTRL.
Who’s with me!
