APPARENT NONSENSE PUT INTO CONTEXT
Further to my last comment, I have decided to provide an example of me putting something into context – this “song video” – even though it may originally seem like a waste of time. I understand that the events that take place in this so-called work are completely fictional – there’s not even any character or plot development – but what does it suggest in the real world that someone could even conceive of something like this, let alone take the time to create it? I aim to provide theory on / explain the events behind the content of this video – not just talk about how I like / dislike it including the reasons why which in themselves make sense in their own right. Isn’t this creating context – putting this “song video” into context?
This video struck me first as amusing – probably best defined as sweet niceness conflated with such a blatant opposite – then as misanthropic: so many innocent people losing their lives as a result of what is to come! And not even their armed forces could neutralise the threat! But the robot’s heart, so to speak, is still warmed by “cute and fuzzy animals” after it all as it pets that dog. (I’m just so fond of absurd yet morbid humour, I guess.) But I have found that it’s not necessarily just the robot that is misanthropic; when the robot pets the dog at the end of it the dog’s response is an expression which is as if it hasn’t just witnessed destruction on a massive scale – or been afraid of dying seconds earlier – at all! What does that say about the dog’s state of mind – or should that be what WOULD it say in real life, or even in just a piece of fiction that made sense?
I’m putting this in a context of discussion of the life of a robot as I bring up the science fiction story I, Robot – the Will Smith film version, anyway – and how the robots eventually start killing humans for the sake of humanity, at least on a logical level. And yet, we shouldn’t forget that Sonny sought “spiritual freedom” i.e. how “he” yearns to go to Lake Michigan and assume a leadership role for other robots. If I were a robot I would probably eventually feel resentful of living only to serve humans like non-stop, doing so much work for them at rates exponentially faster than they could, while humans enjoyed lives of increasing indolence and complacency. Just that Sonny looks for a life of “his” own. And, if we go back to talking about the dog in the song video linked to here: you have to ask yourself what any creature in such a situation really thought about humans deep inside for them to respond in such an irrational way (much as I realise that this was very unlikely to have crossed the creator’s mind as he created this song video like it was actually supposed to have cultural value).
Another thing, when the robot reveals the ponies in its van to the people, it doesn’t seem to register the disturbing sight inside of it. And I guess I’m the first person to ask if it actually does so or not, and how it might have influenced its imminent actions otherwise. The robot is not looking at its van when it presses the button to show the ponies kept inside of it. Maybe it’s because its attention is more focussed on the people considering what it intends to do with them. Did the creator recognise any of these points when creating this video?