The Rise of Age of Machine, The Fall Of The Age Of Man!

the technological system is a network of machines and and the prosses fo their creation and movement. Starting with the transformation of the earths innards into prosses replicators who displace vanrrient human labor with hegemonous machine labor. The displaced labor then has went to the service of the machines, who where to service the dominant class. The machines then becoming a class of their own, a non-human slave class, quickly (historically speaking) displacing the previous non-human slave class; work animals (oxen, horses, etc.). However, this new slave class was very different but became disseminated for labour among the human classes in a similar way. They start as only in the service of the dominant class of humans, but as the class of humans who service them, and the machines to produce machines started to be invented and be disseminated, their number increased and there for the classes which they served also increased. The amount of this slave labour that one had was still a mark of ones place in the class system, in this case replacing animal and/or human slaves with machanical slaves. But, the key difference with this new class of slaves was that firstly they where so efficient at their services they provided, and the variations of the services, they continued to increase in number and variation of function, so that they quickly displaced all other slave classes. Because of this growth, and its subsequent requirements, the largest human peasent class that was formally self-sufficiant and served no one except themselves but where still nonetheless subjects of the higher classes, became increasingly a class at the service of the machine class, and thus lost much of their autonomy. It should be noted that by servicing humans in this way they where also replacing them, thus taking the knowlege and skills required to preform that service away from the human relm and putting it into a new relm in which it became practically irretrievable. It should also be noted that the humans who are being serviced, after being removed from the requirement of performing the labour and knowing the skills on which they depend soon loose these skills and then must have servents. They become dependents, much as a child to its parents; infantile. This fact coupled with the removal of knowlege and skills from the human relm, the dependence becomes practically irreversable and totally universal. As most people should know, the elite consuming classes are more dependant upon the producing classes than vice versa. this is the reason that the elite classes must use force to maintain their privaledge within the class system. this same dynamic exists between the human classes and the machine class, with one very important difference. With humans, being free willed animals who have various allegences, feel emotions, and do not nessisarily work together, it is possible for controlling classes of humans to manipulate their needs, deprive them at times, and force their subserviance. This is, however, not possible with machines. And like other situations where a dominant amd numerically smaller class was not able to exert their force enough to ensure subserviance upon a numaically larger less privaleged class, a shift in class power relations occurs; a revolution, like those that occured in the North American brittish colonies, or in 18th certury France. Thus the machine class came to dominate this civiliztion. The ruling class of this civilization is Not made up of humans, but of Machines. But this being so, why is it not obvious to everyone? Because like the human anthropologist talking to the Jelly Fish in Daniel Quinn's book "Ishmael", the doninant myths and religion of a civilization are not seen or even understood by their most ardent beleivers to be myths and religions. They become invisible. There is a reason why critiques of technology within this civilization
are treated like, well, like blasphemy. It is a very powerful belief too that maintains ingnorence of facts that effect our bodies, minds, social interactions, and eviornment in such a profound way. It must be a powerfull belief to main itself for it is only through the sacrifice of our lives to labour for the machines that this situation continues to persist. Can you not see it? For who is most of our artificial landscape desined to service? It is desined by and for machines. It's needs, production and efficiency, are those that are met by the modern ladscape we are subsumed within. In fact there is entire sections of our artificial landscape that are segregated for manchines only; highways. the train in the station doesn't wait for you, it doesn't care, because its not your needs that it is serving after all, it serves efficiency of production by moving workers who serves the reproduction and maintenence of the technological system. the cold concreate is unforgiving, it is often said. Of course, forgiveness is for humans, not machines. It is Machines who matter, not people.