Pathetic. Now, as if conjured from that great sci fi flick Westworld, comes the sex robot. From the story:
Mr Hines said: “She can’t vacuum, she can’t cook but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean. “She’s a companion. She has a personality. She hears you. She listens to you. She speaks. She feels your touch. She goes to sleep. We are trying to replicate a personality of a person.”
Mr Hines, from TrueCompanion, said the doll could carry out simple conversations and was designed to “know exactly what you like”. He said: “Sex only goes so far, then you want to be able to talk to the person. “She knows exactly what you like. If you like Porsches, she likes Porsches. If you like soccer, she likes soccer.”
And the best part; you never have to worry about what she likes!
What kind of pathetic person who is older than 13 needs a “woman” to agree with him all the time? That point aside, this is a human exceptionalism issue because it is part of the ongoing drive to objectify/replicate various aspects of human experience, which ironically, is dehumanizing because it diverts us from the importance, enjoyments, and yes, difficulties of the real thing. It is also part of the coup de culture (society based on utilitarianism, hedonism, and scientism/radical environmentalism), with hedonism’s Siren song of dehumanization leading to isolation and disengagement. Also on the horizon, 3D porn. Wow! Imagine the potential for degradation and isolation! Huxley warned us it would be like this.
Update: Original link no longer works. Here’s another take from the Telegraph.
January 11th, 2010 | 2:00 pm
Well, at least the sex robots won’t emit CO2 or get pregnant and therefore contribute to global warming – maybe that will slow some of the genocide. ;)
January 11th, 2010 | 2:53 pm
3-D porn? How unimaginative. Think BIG. 360 degree, life-sized holographic porn with surround sound is the wave of the future.
January 11th, 2010 | 3:58 pm
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 11th, 2010 | 4:00 pm
This is totally sexist! I demand that they make a male sex robot!
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
January 11th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
They are.
January 11th, 2010 | 4:02 pm
Also, think of the possibilities for malfunction! Would you feel safe with one of those robots making love to you? Ouch!
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
January 11th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Ouch!
January 11th, 2010 | 4:32 pm
Speaking as an IT professional, there’s a Kafka novel in the concept of someone having the job of programming and debugging these things.
Also, the link is bad, so maybe robo-Yul Brenner has already found and dealt with the folks responsible for this very bad idea.
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
January 11th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Yes, the original link is dead. Brenner on rampage. I added a different link.
January 11th, 2010 | 4:48 pm
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January 12th, 2010 | 2:16 pm
This instantly reminded me of the Futurama episode where Fry gets a Lucy Lu robot for a girlfriend.
Electro Gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer.
How sad that anyone could compare this to a real human being. It has just as much of a “personality” as a Furby.
January 12th, 2010 | 6:02 pm
Humans could invent vivisection; naturally they could think this up too, and this is a lot less bad.
January 12th, 2010 | 7:06 pm
You should check out the forgotten 1988 movie Cherry 2000. It portrayed a future when many men turned to sex robots because relationships with real women had become so contentious and legally dangerous.
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Not to mention Stepford Wives
January 13th, 2010 | 9:42 pm
How about Charles Williams’s novel _Descent Into Hell_. Williams was a bit into the occult and imagines a succubus conjured out of a character’s fantasies. She likes what he likes. She answers him. She comes and talks to him in his study during the day and has sex with him at night. Until his mind starts breaking down, at which point she starts to stutter…
January 14th, 2010 | 3:08 pm
Only when the replacement of man with machine spreads to the world of sex do modern Christians notice that the limits of love are being transgressed.
But by then, it’s a bit late since we’ve already accepted the logic of reductive “efficiency” in every other area of life.
January 17th, 2010 | 2:26 pm
Three things you’ll never hear from a robot:
1. I’m too tired
2. I have a headache
3. You want me to WHAT?
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