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{{quote|''Alien vs. Predator'' doesn’t work as a premise because no-one cares if two baddies knock seven bells out of each other. That means they aren’t knocking seven bells out of us. ''Alien/Predator Alliance'': Now there’s a film premise.}} | {{quote|''Alien vs. Predator'' doesn’t work as a premise because no-one cares if two baddies knock seven bells out of each other. That means they aren’t knocking seven bells out of us. ''Alien/Predator Alliance'': Now there’s a film premise.}} | ||
Now, if I can have ''one'' doomscrolling electric monk, I can have ''a thousand''. And if the technology works<ref>If it doesn’t — by no means certain to — then nor does The Man’s, and this phase of our cultural existence will pass on all by itself.</ref> then the forthcoming [[Apocalypse|apocalyptic]] battle will not be between ''us'' and ''The Man'', but between ''The Man’s'' technology (''Alien'') and ''ours'' (''Predator''). Since, [[Q.E.D.]], The Man’s technology has no way of telling ''us'' from ''our electric monks'', then ''we'' have the advantage. The Man needs us. We don’t need The Man. Especially since our [[electric monks]] | Now, if I can have ''one'' doomscrolling electric monk, I can have ''a thousand''. And if the technology works<ref>If it doesn’t — by no means certain to — then nor does The Man’s, and this phase of our cultural existence will pass on all by itself.</ref> then the forthcoming [[Apocalypse|apocalyptic]] battle will not be between ''us'' and ''The Man'', but between ''The Man’s'' technology (''Alien'') and ''ours'' (''Predator''). Since, [[Q.E.D.]], The Man’s technology has no way of telling ''us'' from ''our electric monks'', then ''we'' have the advantage. The Man needs us. We don’t need The Man. Especially since our [[Index.php?title=Electric monk|electric monks]] ''don’t'' have to emulate ''our'' behaviour at all. We can obstreperously configure them to emulate ''someone else''. This is how Russian twitter bots hacked the US election, you see. | ||
So, if we each deploy a thousand electric monks to randomly browse, like and share content ''at random'', constrained only by the requirement that our synthetic doomscrolling should emulate ''some'' human’s habits, even if not necessarily ours, then all that wondrous aggregated data that the FANGS have on us ''isn’t on us''. It is worthless, meaningless, hypothetical. | So, if we each deploy a thousand electric monks to randomly browse, like and share content ''at random'', constrained only by the requirement that our synthetic doomscrolling should emulate ''some'' human’s habits, even if not necessarily ours, then all that wondrous aggregated data that the FANGS have on us ''isn’t on us''. It is worthless, meaningless, hypothetical. | ||