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[29 Jul 2009|11:02am] |
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Styx--Mister Roboto |
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Connection's utterly dead. Utterly. Dead. I can only get online at the lab. I'm sure you've had enough of my whining about such, just a heads up to my snark buddies.
In the meantime, a post I made on Wugwhuh that I've been meaning to make here.
When I first heard Mister Roboto by Styx, I assumed it was a story about a near-future civilization that's provided for entirely by technology. At the height of this nigh-utopia, a mysterious robot appears as a leader and exhorts people to free themselves from their pleasant stupor and return to the proud race they once were, as the machines are dehumanizing them. The society embraces the movement--it's not just The Right Thing, it's absolutely fashionable--and destroys their mechanical helpers and saviors with zeal. Finally, when all human beings are standing free of all technological augmentation, the beloved leader reveals himself to be a soldier in a robot alliance, sent to trick humans into making themselves helpless through the guise of empowering them. As the song ends, humanity is being enslaved and robots dominate the earth.
Apparently it's actually about a rock and roll misfit prison and mindless robots and junk.
...So Yeah.
Stay tuned, kids. I'll be back someday.
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GYROMANCY!
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