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Sunday, April 2, 2017

you can't beat the game of life

Life and death is inevitable. It is hard for one to try to grasp the idea of both but the human brain just has to understand that maybe we can not actually understand all its parts. Birth and death are extraordinary things and we, as a society may never actually understand what truly it all means. In the episode of Black Mirror, I believe that the idea of giving the woman a way to receive closure with the lost of her husband and father of her child by texting him was a good idea, at first. Asher's death was unexpected and life was thrown for a loop for his wife when she received the news. However, the best way for one to move on is to naturally go through the weird yet traditional ways of grieving. There are many ways to grieve, however recreating Asher from his entries on social media is not fair to him or his wife. Only one side of Asher is shone on social media;therefore, it is not truly Asher but just the side he wants the public to see of him. It is just one part of the many faces of Asher and that may just the attractive qualities of him. Asher was not just the person he was on the Internet, he was distant, emotional, and almost douche type guy off screen. He regularly ignored his wife and did not actually interact with her much. He had traded her for his technology. In other words, just creating Asher from what he portrayed online was not correct or ethnical.It think it is kind of ironic that Asher had basically traded his wife for technology and in the end his wife traded him for a clone which could be argued that was a better version of him. I do believe if the Black Mirror producers had built Asher some type of way including his memories and experiences, Asher would have been more "Asher." But since he was just generated from a computer data he was not human enough like. But it could also be argued he was almost too "human." He has perfected the idea of being human but the problem is being human is full of flaws. It is scary that we live in a world where robots and androids are perfecting this thing called life.I truly believe life is all about the failures, struggles, and hardships. But that is just me. All in all, that episode truly put the future into perspective and that kind of scares the s*** out of me.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The androids created were definitely perfecting the way of life. I also agree that life is about hardships and failures, and it is normal for those to happen in life. When you look back at past famous people like J.K. Rowling, you begin to see that failures are in fact what makes a person. She was diagnosed with clinical depression and contemplated suicide after her divorce, first child, and jobless time in her thirties.She is a living witness that hardships does not define you but only make you what you become. Since Ash 2 could not experience such features, he could not experience life as a human.