Monday, October 11, 2010

Safety, control and other myths

Yesterday I watched "The Surrogates." A futuristic movie where everyone has a robot and these robots do the day to day bidding for their humans. These high tech mannequins have perfect bodies without working out. They feel no pain so they can take great risks without any consequences. Their job is to make life better for their owners. People can have all the pleasure but no pain with a surrogate.

The movie reminds me of how we want life to be better then it is. We really do want risks without consequences, pleasure without pain; We want to be safe. We want to be in control. I want to be in control.

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