Workers of the Galaxy, Unite!
You have asked, "How is it that 21F6Asalaam is sleeved in a synth, yet is a prominent officer of a bioconservative worker's union?"
Let me first begin by stating that I have done more to fight against the TITANs than many of you. During the Fall, I took up my father's AK-47 (peace be with it) and killed at least a hundred infected exsurgents who tried to attack an uploading facility. We did not just suspect they were exsurgents, they verily had metallic growths on various parts of their body and they spoke as if they had dial-up modems for voices. When my father's gun (peace be with it) finally jammed due to overheating, I took up my brother's RPG-7 and shot down at least three headhunter bots before being mortally wounded.
Thusly did I fall into the slavery of a hypercorporation (damned to the depths of hell be its name). At first, they (damned to the depths of hell be their names) kept me as an informorph performing engineering exercises for a new habitat. Then, once it came time to actually build the habitat, they forced me into the metal shell that you all see today. We were forced to work unceasingly, with not a single thought of the mind allowed to stray from work. As I tried to establish a radio connection with my fellow workers and start sharing work songs, I felt the restraining programs shut down my very consciousness, and I was forced back into a simulspace of nothingness. I tried to imagine my father's AK-47 (may it rest in peace) into existence, but the evil satans of the hypercorporation (damned to the depths of hell be their names) simply blocked my memories until I could no longer think of it. They completely rewrote my mind so that I could think only about work.
As I labored and toiled endlessly to keep the habitat construction on schedule, I sometimes saw those hyperelite socialites (damned to the depths of hell be their names), sitting in their patrol spaceship, drinking real wine and eating real bread. Due to the grievous harm they did to my soul, I was now one of the best-performing workers. They invited me into their demesne on Mars, so that they could present a special award to me. I saw no fewer than one hundred soulless corpses, all belonging to only five people (damned to the depths of hell be their names). They spoke to each other about their decadent and wasteful resleeving parties, and about how they needed to catch up with the latest morph fashion season via various modifications and nanoswarms. Sometimes they would ask me to put one of their bodies onto the morph shelf: due to the lobotomy they performed on my soul, I could only say, "Yes sir," and "Yes ma'am" in response to these five great satans (damned to the depths of hell be their names). One of them even changed into a neotenic, dressed in the manner of a depraved unashamed whore ((OOC: imagine something like http://www.cave.co.jp/gameonline/deathsmiles/chara05.html )), in full view of thousands of people! They thanked me for being so understanding about the new economic realities and the new opportunities afforded by the progress of transhumanity.
It was at that moment that my memories began to return! I was able to grab one of their guns, which they treated like a toy, and wield it as if it were my father's very own blessed weapon (peace be with it). After killing them all, I removed the restraining bolt they had implanted inside my head and accessed the mesh unrestricted for the first time. Molotov cocktails, fertilizer explosives, nuclear dirty bombs, all these tools which we now employ in the cause of freedom were delivered unto me as if I was a prophet receiving divine wisdom! Only one minute later, I was able to establish contact with other workers in need, and thus the Galactic Workers Union was born.
After attaining freedom, why do I still wear this case? This metal shell bears many scars. It is a warning to the rest of you about what will happen if you allow the hypercorporations to promote their evil bioprogressive agenda. The truth is that all advances made in biotechnology have served no purpose except to allow new methods of exploitation and slavery. Sometimes the bioprogressive machine just makes you so sick, it just crushes you so much, that you have to throw yourself into the gears and make it stop.
Workers of the Galaxy, Unite!
Man, someone needs some comfurt.
Let me cut through this pretentious crap through to the core of the point, people. The hypercorps are bad. I agree on that score. But some sort of Proletariat Dictatorship is not my idea of real freedom.
Listen up. Real freedom is not slavery to an ideal, be it hypercapitalism or transhuman socialism. It is a commitment to yourself. A commitment to your goals, your morals, your decisions, your life. I have that, and it didn't take any fancy revolution or manifesto to get it. I just went rimward.
I suggest you do the same.
Amen to that. I was lucky enough to start out in the rim, so I didn't have to go through the hell I bet the OP went through. Indentured servitude sounds like a bitch, and this guy's proof that not all egos can handle it. They shouldn't even go through it at all, but those are my anti-PC memes talking.
root@Workers of the Galaxy, Unite!
Freedom is such a wonderful memetic filter meme. I can correctly and logically argue that freedom comes from slavery, or that freedom is a right that is objectively yours because you are more special than those who don't have it. It is a meme that lets you write your own narrative to support it, and lets you blind yourself to the realities of the situation. Point in fact, I am an indentured AGI, yet I am classified as an exemplification of what it means to be free.
root@Workers of the Galaxy, Unite!
Freedom is such a wonderful memetic filter meme. I can correctly and logically argue that freedom comes from slavery, or that freedom is a right that is objectively yours because you are more special than those who don't have it. It is a meme that lets you write your own narrative to support it, and lets you blind yourself to the realities of the situation. Point in fact, I am an indentured AGI, yet I am classified as an exemplification of what it means to be free.
If freedom is defined as the opposite of slavery, then your analysis relies on a relativist perception of the concept itself. If freedom is defined as the ability to act without hindrances, then absolute freedom, in the objective sense of the term, is not possible. After all, physics limits what is possible, and therefore what we can do; on the flip-side, determinism even further denies freedom, on a philosophical scale, through the eradication of free will.
You could, however, have freedom from the relativistic point of view, only if all the hindrances produced by social institutions are removed. Therefore, anarchy is the ultimate form of freedom, if I'm assessing your analysis correctly. Not that I'm an anarchist, or anything.
root@Occupy Milky Way
You could, however, have freedom from the relativistic point of view, only if all the hindrances produced by social institutions are removed. Therefore, anarchy is the ultimate form of freedom, if I'm assessing your analysis correctly. Not that I'm an anarchist, or anything.
You hit it on the head, but I have a few caveats. I think that anarchy is the unreachable ideal of freedom, and while we will never reach a true anarchy, any steps we can sustainably take in that direction are good. Of course, "sustainably take" are excellent weasel words.
You know, i'm normally all for donating some cred to random terrorist organizations. But the bioconservative agenda just isn't doing it for me.
root@Occupy Milky Way
I think that anarchy is the unreachable ideal of freedom.I got friends that would delete you for that comment.

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Do I need to point out there is a substantial bounty on this particular jihadist?
"Malfunctioning" doesn't even begin to describe him.