Personal but important
Sep. 20th, 2014 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeeth_kyrahToday, I had to destroy a machine I had built.. a construct in spirit meant to aid enlightenment.
Why? Because it was being misused. I built it to help people dream, to awaken their imaginations and give flight to fancies that otherwise would never fly. To help the People of Earth build The Future.. the future we always wanted, the future we each wish we could live.
Instead, it was turned into another cheap excuse for brainwashing, a way to distribute propaganda.
So no. I will not be party to enslavement.
I'm building another. That thing was due for an upgrade anyway. And I'm building in even better safeguards.
But a tool is a tool no matter who wields it: The wielder determines its ultimate use.
Better that many have the same tool than that one may dominate with it. Better that we build a system together, than a system only one may control.
Better to have dreams of better from everyone, than to dream the sweet lie of ignorance.
Are you ready to dream?
I am.
Why? Because it was being misused. I built it to help people dream, to awaken their imaginations and give flight to fancies that otherwise would never fly. To help the People of Earth build The Future.. the future we always wanted, the future we each wish we could live.
Instead, it was turned into another cheap excuse for brainwashing, a way to distribute propaganda.
So no. I will not be party to enslavement.
I'm building another. That thing was due for an upgrade anyway. And I'm building in even better safeguards.
But a tool is a tool no matter who wields it: The wielder determines its ultimate use.
Better that many have the same tool than that one may dominate with it. Better that we build a system together, than a system only one may control.
Better to have dreams of better from everyone, than to dream the sweet lie of ignorance.
Are you ready to dream?
I am.
