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 Call this new implementation a virtual<ref>''Real'' electric monks, like electric sheep — you know, the ones androids dream of — would be take up space, drain energy and require servicing. Virtual electric monks would not.</ref> “electric monk”. It would be a ''labour-saving device'' - it would doomscroll the internet for us.
 ===Alien vs. Predator===
-''Alien vs. Predator'' doesn’t work as a premise because no-one cares if two baddies knock seven bells out of each other — in doing so they cancel each other out: they reduce the threat to us: if they are knocking 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.
+''Alien vs. Predator'' doesn’t work as a premise because no-one cares if they knock seven bells out of each other — that reduces the threat each poses individually to us: if they are knocking seven bells out of each other, that means they aren’t knocking seven bells out of us.
-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 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.
+''Alien/Predator Alliance'': Now ''there’s'' a film premise.
+Now, if I can have ''one'' doom-scrolling 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 ''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.