The Sympathetic Sentient Weapon, is a term that could be used to describe a surprising amount of modern jobs. Think about the Meter Maid and the Repo Man. These are regular people just doing jobs so that they can pay for their own right to live in this mad world. But to do so, they must inflict pain upon others.
Now, if you are still buying into the theology of modern civilization, you might think that those people brought these things upon themselves. But the game of civilization is designed to be lost. The game of civilization doesn't function unless it offers up a certain amount of its population as a sacrifice to power the success of those at the top.
And that psychology buy in that you may still cling to matches another trope.
The restraining bolt. Unlike the sexy and tragic plot devices of science fiction, however, our restraining bolts are psychological and financial dependence upon a system that is damaging in a very real and tangible way.
We've been writing about ourselves in code to ourselves because we couldn't bear to say it out loud. Our masters wouldn't like it. But here we are, a bunch of slaves punishing each other because we don't know how to get out. The big discovery of the modern world has been to hide the mechanisms of this system better than previous generations.
"The greatest trick the devil every pulled, was convincing the world that he didn't exist."
The Usual Suspects
Yeah progress.
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