From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: Sex & Violence in VR
Date: 13 Apr 92 07:33:31 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Originator: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu


>        "Sure, I'm a serious researcher.  I do Death Machine Simulations--
>no sex, no sirree because that would be *dirty*."
>
>        In fact, those serious researchers will respond to institutional needs
>(killing, commanding, controlling, for instance; healing also, to be sure), not
>to our individual human ones, because institutions pay the freight on research.

This is the big fallacy, the big mass hallucination of the VR society
we're living in.  I'm not exactly aware how we do it but somehow we
seem to be capable of convincing ourselves that there some kinds of
new organisms, "institutions", like governments, companies and so on
which have a right to do things and decide about what they do with
humans, what they order humans to do.

Looking from the VR viewpoint, of course, it doesn't really matter if
it's a hallucation or not and the new organisms and the cruelties they
are doing to humans, the deprivation of freedom they are inflicting on
humans are at least as real as most things in our world (banks, stock
markets, mass media).

Many of these organisms feed directly on human flesh, get their
livelihood by killing humans - because military spending is such a big
part of the money spent on research, on also every other line of
business the organism (as any creature with the self-preservation
instinct) naturally responds to any attempt of trying to hurt it or
make it smaller.  The media organisms feed on the results, like
vultures; the whole society feeds and grows on human flesh - more war
causes more demand for weapons, which causes the organisms to multiply
and grow, which in turn demands more war to put the resources into use
and convince humans that the organisms are necessary.  Other
organisms, often symbiotic with the human-flesh-eating ones, feed on
agriculture, by carefully planting human seeds and continuously
monitoring their growth processes, ready to step in at the first sign
of attempt to escape from the "plant".  These "human plantations" are
carefully taught to be good plants (via constant carefully-chosen flow
of "information" via television, mass media etc.), good consumers to
provide these kinds of new organisms with "money", on which they live
on.  Then there are the quick-growing "government" organisms, which
differ from the previous class in that they often do not bother to
persuade the humans to comply in providing nutritition to
organizations, they let humans move about relatively free and just
once in a while stop the humans and by threats force some food for
themselves out of the humans

The purpose of the existence of humans in the "western" society
doesn't seem to be to live in the nature, with the nature, and to
comply with our instincts as living things in general do.  Perhaps the
denial of humanity, the denial of basic instincts such as the desire
for sex, altered states of consciousness, etc. is a reaction which
emerges with the attempt to try to comply into our new ecological
compartment, to live as slaves to satisfy these ever-growing new
organisms which feed on humans, animals, natural resources of our
planet and seem to be quickly destroying the globe.

//Jyrki