Is freedom the most important topic in Gariffo’s novel?
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Re: Is freedom the most important topic in Gariffo’s novel?
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Another question is, can anybody truly be ONLY the consumer. Whenever a human (or any other decision-making lifeforms) are involved with other thinking creatures they become more, even in Graffo's dystopia.
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This is very deep and the question that arises here could be food for thought for everyone as well. Perhaps as of now, it may not be bad to enslave a robot but we never know what the future holds since it is possible that such questions will be raised, especially with the emergence of cyborgs.Sdejardine wrote: ↑28 Aug 2018, 11:55 I think the word freedom in this novel has many layers. There is freedom like we know it today. But, then there is freedom as we may know it in the future. Is enslaving a robot, a violation of freedom? We may think we know the difference, but maybe not. Freedom of being able to walk down a street without being violated by bots who know your spending habits no longer exists. Freedom to really have financial independence also seems to be a thing of the past. All of these violations of freedom as we know it today seems to be a very important, underlying, topic of this book. It may not seem like a huge part of the story until you look deeper into the book.
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The attitudes in the book can be applied to a lot of aspects already in our lives...how many people really have a problem with the intrusiveness of the TSA at the airports? How many are glad for it because it makes them feel safer in the air? Look at the opiod epidemic...when crack cocaine was the drug tearing apart people's lives, empathy lacked because it was something that affected black America...not white America; but this current epidemic hits white America in just about every neighborhood and income bracket...now we're looking at addicts as people who deserve pity...and we're looking at what needs to be done to prevent overdoses - to keep those addicts safe.
Heck, go back to the World Wars! The United States public was staunchly isolationist right up until the morning of Dec. 7 1941, because WWII was a European affair...it wasn't our problem. Americans were safe from Hitler, so we weren't moved to get involved until the war came to our soil.
That's the society Sliver inhabits, one in which people have grown so complacent, they don't care how many freedoms they gave up. They don't care how many assassinations the corporations carry out because they're not affected. That complacency is a bigger danger to our freedoms than the corps themselves, and I feel like that's the message underlying this book.
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