starninja wrote:Carol wrote:
Do you think he is a clone or hybrid? I could understand the Borg mentality if he is part "Hive Mind."
Seriously... people have no clue how this works and hybrids don't see themselves as sovereign individuals but rather as part of the "hive" - which is what disturbs me about the millions of gray hybrids.. not individuals but "hive mind."
I've been thinking about doing a thread on clones. People for the most part are clueless on just how invasive this is in reality.
I don’t focus on clones and hybrids. I would rather focus on human beings who are so detached from feelings and their inner core. We may say it that they are clones but I don’t see it this way. I witnessed many “clones” who got their feelings back. It doesn’t mean that I deny the presence of clones but I refuse to play their game. In fact, when we look how they program us to bee hive mentality, we may get really scared. And programming is so pervasive.
In reading this response, I just have to put something in that has made me laugh about it all.
What triggered me, going ahead and putting this in, is the discussion of the Hive mentality.
There is a book from 1971 titled: Half Past Human
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Past_Human
It is so ironic in so many ways and it can bring up other questions about the whole hoopla happening, but I would think, everyone would have to admit, it really is quite funny in so many ways of the information is right in front of you, if you so desire to look at it. Hidden in plain sight as some may say.
Here's some interesting stuff about the book Half Past Human.
Plot summary
Bass' future Earth is an environment in which the sum of the biota serves as its food chain. Human science has created the four-toed Nebish, a pallid, short-lived and highly programmable humanoid who has had the elements that do not facilitate an underground Hive existence (aggression, curiosity, etc.) bred out of it. The five-toed humans (called buckeyes) wander the biofarms that keep the trillions of Earth's Nebish population fed. All animals other than man are extinct, so meat comes from other humans (and the occasional rat). The conflict between the Hives and the roving bands of five-toed original Humans, who are reduced to savagery and hunted like vermin by Hive Security, forms the backdrop of this novel.
Something strange is happening, as the primitive buckeyes are showing signs of a purpose whose goal is unclear and probably dangerous to the balance of the Hive. There seems to be a third party stirring the pot, campaigning in a relentlessly successful battle with the computer minds that keep this "brave new world" in balance. Agendas beyond the ken of their protagonists begin to come into play, and an epic battle between the Four- and the Five-toed is looming.
another little summary
Members of the Hive are gender-neutral until assigned one by the Earth Society for reasons that serve that Hive; reasons usually centering on population control. Good idea given there are three billion members of the Hive. Tinker, an exemplary model of a Hive citizen, is assigned the status of Male, mates and has an "unauthorized" offspring - a five toed baby who is destined for the recycle bin. Paternal instincts kick in (thanks to his assignment as a male) and he tries to escape the Hive. Eventually he meets up with old-timer Moon and an artificially intelligent staff (as in meter-long stick) named Toothpick, who are organizing the savage five-toes against the Hive.
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2005/02/review-half-past-human-by-tj-bass/
Here's another one that's also interesting about old-timer Moon
http://mtvenar.deviantart.com/art/Moses-Ependorff-with-Toothpick-166148437?q=sort%3Atime+gallery%3Amtvenar&qo=2
Curious stuff!
I just put the info in for the laughs of it all. Who knew there was a book called Half Past Human and a Hive mentality and an Old Timer Named Moon and a control of the population. All quite funny if you think about it!