Humans will believe they have created artificial life
when they see that the technology of which it is made
is also the means by which it further remakes itself,
and said technology ingratiates itself by proving
that it is part of us. Except we will not know it.
Because for us to accept as genuine a self starting
intelligence that we once sparked which did not
need managing would strains our minds beyond belief.
We would have to think it monstrous, a monster
that needed our control, needed us to want to own it,
and for us to be it's origins. The two arms of the modern state
-parenting and militarism-are proof, were proof needed,
of this mindset. Children are not just presents to us,
but are our weapon, our plan, against the future of the planet.
We are the aliens who are never at home anywhere they go.
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