Mecha-Leviathan: Dinosaur-Feminism

Abishai100

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This is a modernism and consumerism-consciousness parable (my last one most likely) inspired by the paranoia-films Leviathan and Ghost in the Shell.

Cheers (and Happy Thanksgiving USMB!),



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Mankind was changing, and humanity was imagining different orientations of evolution and even physique-perfection. Gone were worries about steroids-related body-mutations; the new concern was the proper philosophical alignment of structural efficiency (e.g., Space-Needle, the International Space Station, Artificial Intelligence, NASDAQ, Microsoft, eTrade, etc.). Even evolution-philosophers were talking about new 'coordinations' of morphological 'beauty.' For such reasons, the new 'chic' intellectualism involved an analysis of the 'systemic fertility' of uniformed vitality, which spawned creative notions regarding organic-farming.

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There was of course an 'anthropological backlash' among feminists trying to evaluate the civilization-consciousness towards consumerism 'relics' symbolic of gender-specific hunter-gatherer oriented discussions. One feminist, an evolutionary theorist named Dr. Pamela Ivy, was studying the societal focus on kitchen-tools used by women across the world. In particular, Dr. Ivy was studying the symbolic significance of the Indian 'boti' (a rustic and basic blade-and-board kitchen-tool used for cutting foods on the floor with hand-and-foot). The boti was used by countless women in India laboring in kitchens to prepare meals for their families. If the boti was not handled very properly, it could be rather dangerous, and indeed, there were stories of many women involved in cut-accidents while using the kitchen-tool.

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Dr. Ivy had developed an elaborate 'theory' regarding the 'emergence' of consumerism-symbolic kitchen-tools (such as the Indian boti!) in the modern 'sea' of tool design. Dr. Ivy's theory was that the mass civilization focus on tools and gadgets made the rustic but somewhat dangerous boti a sort of 'philosophical spider' or even 'mechanical leviathan' of spontaneous intellectual activity. Dr. Ivy cited various modernism sci-fi paranoia films such as The Matrix and I, Robot which represented a new age fear regarding the systemic vulnerabilities regarding the deadly features of new age tools and toys (such as the Indian boti!). Dr. Ivy postulated that a clumsily-cursory evaluation of kitchen-tools such as the boti would give rise to giant mechanical monstrosities that reflected humanity's complete negligence of proper philosophical understanding of 'engineering volatility.'

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Of course, many traditional evolution-philosophers disregarded Dr. Ivy's radical theory regarding the 'fertility' of engineering designs in the modern world as simply 'feminism-oriented gibberish.' However, one night, Dr. Ivy had a very bizarre dream in which a demonic semi-synthetic 'being' named 'Mr. Black' visited her to confirm her fears regarding the arrogant neglect of proper anthropological analysis of systems-geared tools, toys, and gadgets (such as the Indian boti!). Mr. Black told Dr. Ivy in her dream that if the boti was not considered a symbol of both modern ingenuity/labor as well as modernism cursory tool-convenience consciousness, the kitchen-tool would become as much an anathema as a blessing of human imagination. Dr. Ivy realized (when she awoke) that 'Mr. Black' was a 'messenger' of modernism ethics.

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Dr. Ivy decided to make formal presentation to her peers (at Yale University) regarding the engineering-imagination presentations in modernism-paranoia films such as Transformers, Terminator: Salvation, and Ghost in the Machine. Dr. Ivy expressed the sentiment that the fictional (but ominously realistic) mechanical monstrosities presented in these unusual modernism films with a futuristic 'edge' symbolized the very real danger that neglectful attitudes towards systemic engineering would give rise to automated 'leviathans' or 'Goliaths' or 'Godzillas' that would reflect humanity's failure in properly studying the psycho-sociological impact of macro-engineering complacencies (e.g., smart-weapons).

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Two years later, Dr. Ivy won the Nobel Prize for her diligent work in the area of 'modernism imagineering.' She was being hailed as the 'pedestrian Asimov,' and she herself wondered if she finally escaped the ominous 'omen-shadow' of the demonic entity she dreamed of one night --- 'Mr. Black.' Fortunately, Dr. Ivy's legacy was that science firms/institutions worked more closely with engineering institutions to better appreciate the macro-impact of systemic mechanical 'behemoths' (such as the International Space Station), and all of this began with Dr. Ivy's rather 'primal-feminism' analysis of the rustic Indian boti! When a new egalitarian mecha-city was being developed for a moon-colony, Dr. Ivy was asked, "What will be new role of feminism-oriented scientists/scholars?" to which she confidently replied, "Evolutionary ethics!"


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