Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Ghouls in the Machine - Short Story



(The Last Blogger:)
No it’s not a rock band, friends – but yes sounds like it, doesn’t it?
“Ghouls in the Machine”.
That would be kind of cool but this – no this is not cool at all, man.
November 3rd 2034 less than one year ago now, the World Union declared in their infinite and definitive wisdom that uploading consciousness is a requirement for World Citizenship with its benefits of basics like the right to travel – not to mention the right to buy food and necessities. You had your vaccines up to date, your social score is within the window of acceptance, your record is clean as a whistle and you are thinking that OK now I am in compliance and at least can be left in some kind of peace for a minute and just breathe … but no because The Singularity is upon us.
With religious compunctions removed from exception now, there is no place to hide for the vast majority of us who wish to reside in the civilized world. What is this but a new religion for our times? You can have eternal Virtual Life in The Machine or even in a new bio-robotic body, if you can afford it, by to uploading your consciousness. Low low interest payment plans are readily available worldwide with even a growing demand upon Elon’s Consciousness Forever program to make the service free to those around the world with no hope of ever being able to afford Eternal Life. Within the confines of this madness, the argument being made that if this is a requirement, then it needs to be made available to all people possesses its own internal logic, give it that.
Nevertheless, I personally will choose to die taking my consciousness and my own dear soul to the grave with me, Thank You Very Much Elon et all.

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