The Struggle for Status

I am not the brightest of social observers, and it just occurred to me, to take this into consideration. And I am realizing how important it is. And how it effects everyone I know - including me!

My Father was an expert in manipulating, what other people thought of him. Mostly other people in his RLDS church - that as far as he was concerned, were the only people who mattered. He succeeded somehow, I am not sure how, in making himself an important person there.

He thought he was important, and somehow other people came to agree with him. This was a religious community, and this made this transference of opinion much easier. I can remember, from my childhood, that the church was full of self-important people.

This must have looked ridiculous to outsiders, as they were called - but they were polite enough to keep their opinions to themselves.

In the 19th Century, people were not so considerate. They were violent, and this resulted in the death of their founder Joseph Smith, and many of his followers.

People who Became Robots

This was a gradual process, beginning with the Industrial Revolution - when people merged with their machines, and became different creatures entirely.

When I reached a working age, in the late Fifties, everyone worked in Manufacturing or Transportation. Or Electronics, so I became an Electronic Engineer, where the pay was much better.

I was vaguely aware that some kind of transformation was going on, in my world - but for the life of me, could not figure out what it was. Even now, it is hard for me to state what it was.

Only one thing was clear - people were not wanted in this new world. But something different, that I now call robots.

I can explain this best by a much later invention - Software. In this ecosystem (to use its own terminology) there are objects, and the rules, that govern how they behave. And there are the Software Developers (or Programmers or Coders) pulling the strings, behind the scenes, who decide how everything must work.

I'm sure you can tell this is strange new world. And you are probably not sure, how you fit into it. I was not sure myself, but I determined to find out. And what I discovered, is what I am writing about here, in this blog.

But my discovery is something you do not want to know about. But something you have avoided knowing about, with all your strength. And may knock you flat on your ass, once you know it.

People have made the ultimate adaption to their technology - and become robots.

I will explain each of these terms, in the postings that will follow this one.