Let’s face it,
probably the largest threat to humanity at the moment is population
pressure. Even more than the demands for
physical resources is the challenge of living with the stress generated by so
very, very many personalities attempting to cohabitate on one rather
overstuffed planet.
The physical options
for fixing this look rather grim, they involve things like “random population reduction”
(read war or plague) or perhaps “compulsory population attrition” (read mandatory sterility),
you know, those good old Orwellian desperation generated double think euphemisms
for “we need to get rid of about half of us.”
Hmmmm… all very biblical when you get right down to it. Maybe the mark of the beast will turn out to be
a USDA stamp of some sort like in the movie “Soylent Green.” I don’t know, I don’t really want to know.
But that’s just
the physical side of the coin. Maybe the
brains that be have decided to approach the problem from the other side of the
issue, decided that if enough personalities can be structured as functionally
identical then the stress levels can be held manageable for long enough to not
need such drastic measures. After all,
the stress is being generated by so many different
personalities, so many unique
personalities putting unique loading's on the social systems. Perhaps they’re thinking that if ten or a
hundred or a thousand physical bodies share one unique personality then the
stress levels will fall by the same order of magnitude and genocide of one form
or another can be avoided.
If that’s the
case then the Machiavellian maneuverings of mass technology take on an entirely
different perspective. From that
perspective the digi-drone gestalt resolves out as the saving grace of the
human race, their essential suicide of self a noble sacrifice to save the race.
What a thought:
AT&T saved the world with a smart phone.
What a thought. Think that one
deserves a full double shot of good whiskey.
