Monday, September 20, 2010

Week 8 -Corporate control over society















The 2008 South African Xenophobic attacks have lead to the death of thousands of illegal immigrants, robots, and employee’s. This may be partly due to the critical unemployment crisis. Hundreds of native South African tribes were out to kill, as foreigners and technology continued to work illegally to sustain their employment. Many were victims to killings, beatings, sexual assaults, looting and the destruction of property.

Apparently Amnesty International called the South African government to take all necessary measures to protect the human rights of people that were involved in the attacks. This narrow-minded measure was the direct cause of what was to follow.

Amnesty International protected the rights of the ‘people’ but not the robots. Robots were then seen to be rioting against their dismissal of human rights.

With unresponsive telephones, cell phones, machinery and computers– factories and offices were forced to shut down, thus creating the highest unemployment rate in the world to date. South Africa’s skyrocketing crime statistics are also a result of this failure to acknowledge Robots and their contribution to the economy.

With the entire population at a stand still many still question if the government and Amnesty International can bring the country to a sustainable level without the use of technology.

In a live broadcasted interview– former citizen– Daniel Roth replied to this action by saying, ‘I often wonder if humans deserve human rights. Maybe some competition from the machines may snap the species out of narcissistic slumber. Right now is the best time to recognize robot rights, and..’ This was then followed by an electricity failure.

As resources begin to grow scarce and having no contact or help from first world countries, South African’s are truly all alone. A crumbled economy, an extremely high crime rate and an inexistent employment rate. Where are the ‘robots’ now?


http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/category/movie/essays/

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/south-africa-must-protect-those-risk-xenophobic-attack-20080530

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