Summer's Shock Mutates the Organism, the 24hr civilisation, and the Gronkians' Plan
Created | Updated Aug 13, 2004
Without imposition of order, the Organism mutates. The Organism causes the Host to sleep half the day, eat little, spend large amounts of money. Wihout a mold to keep the amoeba cubic, it roils and expands, sprawling splayed protoplasmic tentacles in all directions...its inner structures spin wildly in elextric orbit about the nucleus, which itself zips and zooms everywhere, changing form one moment to the next where the life-centre of the Organism is.
The main imposition of order is, of course, school. Without a reason to be straight, rested, washed, and well-fed, the mind reels, shocked at its new freedom...no longer must it be filled with information that is boring, and no longer must it dedicate itself to the solving of complex math problems, retrieval of obscure data absorbed months and months ago...It is free to reoam vast wildernesses of art...free to immerse itself in the chaotic oblivion of drugs...free to convulse in the elextric shocks of rock and roll.
I feel my sleep pattern shifting, tilting wildly...Last two days, my dad has woken me up between eleven and twelve, and I've still been fast asleep both times. Am I becoming nocturnal? Such a development may very well be the next step of human evolution. We've conquered the night, banished it with powerful electric lights and chemicals that destroy any kind of need for sleep.
Actually, it is more likely that the next step of human evolution is not to become nocturnal, but to become omni-urnal. To NEVER sleep. Take the twenty-four hour society to the next logical step. This could be accomplished by resting one half of the brain at a time...but this would ALSO result in a world full of sleepless half-brained zombies perpetually afflicted by a stroke, hearless and logical while their left brain slumbers, and artsy and frilly while the right blain sleeps.
Chemicals couldn't stop sleep forever; I think a legion of utterly burnt out speed freaks could tell you that much. And it wouldn't do to rest one part of the brain at a time...since each part has a special job to do, and taking it out of comission for however long it takes to rest it would result in wild, strange mood swings for the owner of said brain.
Perhaps if we were to map the brain, and make a complex computer copy that takes into account the effects of natural brain chemicals, a sort of human-caliber AI. A machine that could feel as well as think. If we were to take this computer program, which is made to simulate exactly one person's personality by taking into account the complex cocktail of hormones that sift constantly through the fatty brain tissue, their moods, their reactions, intelligence, so that the AI is an EXACT copy of the person's mind...If we could take that computer program and put it on a chip, a chip that would be implanted diretly in the brain of someone and amke this chip activate while the brain rests...voila! Perpetual awareness.
I think that there is no more need to evolve physically; we don't change to suit the environment any longer, we change the environment to suit us. I think that the next step is to eliminate sleep. Have no down time. Become more and more efficient, smart and fast enough to match the computers that have become man's best friend.
Take the animal out of the ape. This has been humanity's goal for centuries-become less and less animal. Remove utterly the mind from the body, and teh somehow do away with the body...it is no longer necessary. It is no accident that blue collar jobs, where you use your muscles, pay less. It's because they want to discourage it. That's why they make robots to make cars. Well, mostly to make more money, but also to force people to use their BRAINS...THINK, but DON'T DO. Leave that to the machines.
It's all a big conspiracy form the construction workers. They control all. They are actually emissaries from the planet Gronk. See, the Gronkians' technology is limited to space travel and gigantic EMP blasts. They're going to come here, drop an EMP on our asses, then invade our planet through sheer brute force, something we have come to see as obsolete.
The main imposition of order is, of course, school. Without a reason to be straight, rested, washed, and well-fed, the mind reels, shocked at its new freedom...no longer must it be filled with information that is boring, and no longer must it dedicate itself to the solving of complex math problems, retrieval of obscure data absorbed months and months ago...It is free to reoam vast wildernesses of art...free to immerse itself in the chaotic oblivion of drugs...free to convulse in the elextric shocks of rock and roll.
I feel my sleep pattern shifting, tilting wildly...Last two days, my dad has woken me up between eleven and twelve, and I've still been fast asleep both times. Am I becoming nocturnal? Such a development may very well be the next step of human evolution. We've conquered the night, banished it with powerful electric lights and chemicals that destroy any kind of need for sleep.
Actually, it is more likely that the next step of human evolution is not to become nocturnal, but to become omni-urnal. To NEVER sleep. Take the twenty-four hour society to the next logical step. This could be accomplished by resting one half of the brain at a time...but this would ALSO result in a world full of sleepless half-brained zombies perpetually afflicted by a stroke, hearless and logical while their left brain slumbers, and artsy and frilly while the right blain sleeps.
Chemicals couldn't stop sleep forever; I think a legion of utterly burnt out speed freaks could tell you that much. And it wouldn't do to rest one part of the brain at a time...since each part has a special job to do, and taking it out of comission for however long it takes to rest it would result in wild, strange mood swings for the owner of said brain.
Perhaps if we were to map the brain, and make a complex computer copy that takes into account the effects of natural brain chemicals, a sort of human-caliber AI. A machine that could feel as well as think. If we were to take this computer program, which is made to simulate exactly one person's personality by taking into account the complex cocktail of hormones that sift constantly through the fatty brain tissue, their moods, their reactions, intelligence, so that the AI is an EXACT copy of the person's mind...If we could take that computer program and put it on a chip, a chip that would be implanted diretly in the brain of someone and amke this chip activate while the brain rests...voila! Perpetual awareness.
I think that there is no more need to evolve physically; we don't change to suit the environment any longer, we change the environment to suit us. I think that the next step is to eliminate sleep. Have no down time. Become more and more efficient, smart and fast enough to match the computers that have become man's best friend.
Take the animal out of the ape. This has been humanity's goal for centuries-become less and less animal. Remove utterly the mind from the body, and teh somehow do away with the body...it is no longer necessary. It is no accident that blue collar jobs, where you use your muscles, pay less. It's because they want to discourage it. That's why they make robots to make cars. Well, mostly to make more money, but also to force people to use their BRAINS...THINK, but DON'T DO. Leave that to the machines.
It's all a big conspiracy form the construction workers. They control all. They are actually emissaries from the planet Gronk. See, the Gronkians' technology is limited to space travel and gigantic EMP blasts. They're going to come here, drop an EMP on our asses, then invade our planet through sheer brute force, something we have come to see as obsolete.
