And then you start to think of a motive, just as it was hard to believe that this was the work of Islamic terrorists, as was claimed by all and sundry, to begin with, you find it hard to believe the reasons we are being given, by this robot . . . for want of a better word.
[Then you start to wonder if the Russians not only gave the Chinese the nuclear bomb, but other kinds of weaponry too.]
Then you think of Auden :
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
And then you think that no people could be so barbaric . . . and then you think of the algorithm. Did the algorithm keep sending this man, to where he wanted to go?
[And then you just switch off the 'news', tv/radio/internet. You realize that it is you at fault, you realize that you are not obliged to watch, nor listen, nor read.]
What if somehow, someone has managed to get inside the brain of Anders Behring Breivik, and has taken over his brain, has turned him into a robot?
What if this technology has been around for a while . . . say going back as far as the early 1960's?
What then?
Lee H. Oswald, in a letter to his brother:
'Happiness is not based on oneself, it does not consist of a small home, of taking and getting. Happiness is taking part in the struggle, where there is no borderline between one's own personal world, and the world in general.'
Am just about to begin reading Libra by Don DeLillo , , , and can't stop thinking about that line by Geldof :
'the silicon chip inside her head, got switched to overload'.
26/6/2011 14:9
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And then you start to think of a motive, just as it was hard to believe that this was the work of Islamic terrorists, as was claimed by all and sundry, to begin with, you find it hard to believe the reasons we are being given, by this robot . . . for want of a better word.
Who has it in for Norway, you ask yourself?
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/
[Then you start to wonder if the Russians not only gave the Chinese the nuclear bomb, but other kinds of weaponry too.]
Then you think of Auden :
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
And then you think that no people could be so barbaric . . . and then you think of the algorithm. Did the algorithm keep sending this man, to where he wanted to go?
[And then you just switch off the 'news', tv/radio/internet. You realize that it is you at fault, you realize that you are not obliged to watch, nor listen, nor read.]
26/6/2011 12:59
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[Neuroscience . . . where is it leading us?]
What if somehow, someone has managed to get inside the brain of Anders Behring Breivik, and has taken over his brain, has turned him into a robot?
What if this technology has been around for a while . . . say going back as far as the early 1960's?
What then?
Lee H. Oswald, in a letter to his brother:
'Happiness is not based on oneself, it does not consist of a small home, of taking and getting. Happiness is taking part in the struggle, where there is no borderline between one's own personal world, and the world in general.'
Am just about to begin reading Libra by Don DeLillo , , , and can't stop thinking about that line by Geldof :
'the silicon chip inside her head, got switched to overload'.
23/1/2011 12:26
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'The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.'
[Cervantes]
http://sixhundredk.blogspot.com/2011/02/green-shield-stamps.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0205/1224289031363.html
24/0/2011 21:25
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'The original is unfaithful to the translation.'
[Borges]
http://sixhundredk.blogspot.com/2011/01/corazon-tan-franco.html