Independent? I know what you’re thinking, but don’t worry. This is a normal priced comic. Now that I have your attention, I’d like to tell you about Surrogates. In a macabre, noir, and futuristic city (I know, cliché, but let me finish) most of the population chooses to live in safty and style through robot replications of themselves. In all actuality, these don’t have to be modeled after the people that operate them. A person can look however they want, including gender. The robots feel just like bodies, they even get drunk. And they can operate them without ever leaving home. But there are those who abhor this lifestyle as an abomination. Now, several robots have been destroyed by a huge blast of electricity administered by an unknown person, a person who appears to be a robot himself. Weird, huh?

Throughout literature, we have seen the conflict between man and his technology arise again and again. But this brings up a fairly unique question about the ethics of living through machines. True it is a bit extreme, but what if the danger in relying in machines too much isn’t that they might turn on us, but rather that we might forget what it is to live?

 

 

I know, that is far too poignant a point for me too end on. Um… poopy.

-Fumanchu