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- Nov 26, 2014
I honestly don't think the starships he mentions are even very important to him, at least not as such. I mean, he doesn't go anywhere even now, and when he does he spends the whole time on Twitter. To (mis-)quote Kirk from Star Trek V, "What does Bob need with a starship?" They're just symbols of Bob's false god, Science, which he believes will deliver him from scarcity and work into a glorious future where all of his dreams will come true, and thus they are also symbols of a post-scarcity Singularity future. If you gave Bob a starship right now, but without any of the rest of the deal (unlimited idle luxury, VR Mario, sexbots, immortal godlike body, the suffering of those damn Obsolete Mayonnaise Ghouls, etc.) he'd probably have a meltdown. I mean, all those other planets out there are just barren wastelands, without a single city on any of them. And we know what Bob thinks of wastelands.
Now the robots, though, I think that the significance of those to Bob is much more varied. They're slaves so that Bob won't have to work. They're sexbots for Bob to fuck. They steal the Jerbs from the hated Obsolete Mayonnaise Ghouls, bringing a spark of cruel joy to Bob's black and withered atherosclerotic heart. Bob probably even is in love with the authoritarian wet dream of being able to literally just manufacture more people who agree with him--no need for indoctrination, they're just built automatically thinking the right things. Absolute, total, and unlimited slavery of the mind, even if no one calls it that.
Now the robots, though, I think that the significance of those to Bob is much more varied. They're slaves so that Bob won't have to work. They're sexbots for Bob to fuck. They steal the Jerbs from the hated Obsolete Mayonnaise Ghouls, bringing a spark of cruel joy to Bob's black and withered atherosclerotic heart. Bob probably even is in love with the authoritarian wet dream of being able to literally just manufacture more people who agree with him--no need for indoctrination, they're just built automatically thinking the right things. Absolute, total, and unlimited slavery of the mind, even if no one calls it that.