(17.07.2009, 17:55)Arepo schrieb:(16.07.2009, 23:12)Drömmare schrieb: Ich hatte neulich das Gefühl, dass mich einer angegriffen hat. Er wollte in mein Gehirn schauen. Er wollte wissen, ob ich telekinetische Fähigkeiten besitze.
Philip Dick schrieb:Paranoia, I think, is a modern-day development of an ancient, archaic sense that animals still have ---quarry-type animals--- that they're being watched... I say paranoia is an atavistic sense. It's a lingering sense, that we had long ago, when we were ---our ancenstors were--- very vulnerable to predators, and this sense tells them they're being watched.
Deus Ex schrieb:MORPHEUS:
JC Denton. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. No --
JC DENTON:
How do you know who I am?
MORPHEUS:
I must greet each visitor with a complete summary of his file. I am a prototype for a much larger system.
JC DENTON:
What else do you know about me?
MORPHEUS:
Everything that can be known.
JC DENTON:
Go on. Do you have proof about my ancestors?
MORPHEUS:
You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather than of individuals.
JC DENTON:
I'm engineered. So what? My brother and I suspected as much while we were growing up.
MORPHEUS:
You are carefully watched by many people. The unplanned organism is a question asked by nature and answered by death. You are another kind of question with another kind of answer.
JC DENTON:
Are you programmed to invent riddles?
MORPHEUS:
I am a prototype for a much larger system. The heuristics language developed by Dr. Everett allows me to convey the highest and most succinct tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge.
JC DENTON:
How about a report on yourself?
MORPHEUS:
I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves.
JC DENTON:
I don't see anything amusing about spying on people.
MORPHEUS:
Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.
JC DENTON:
Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.
MORPHEUS:
The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.
JC DENTON:
Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.
MORPHEUS:
God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.
JC DENTON:
No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.
MORPHEUS:
The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.
JC DENTON:
You underestimate humankind's love of freedom.
MORPHEUS:
The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization.
MORPHEUS:
The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.
ricky_ho schrieb:Die viel wichtigere Frage ist aber, wieso man ausgerechnet dich im Visier haben sollte.
"Wer nichts zu befürchten hat, ..."