Apparently most of the traffic on the net starts to be robots. And perhaps in the future most of our interaction will be with robots instead of humans. Scared? Hopeful?
(Posting title is from a spammer robot comment to this blog.)
The so-called "Basic Finns" party (Perussuomalaiset) is generating controversy once again. Their Member of Parliament James Hirvisaari has a parlimentary assistant Helena Eronen, who suggested in her blog that immigrants should wear armbands to make it easier for the police to recognize them. Later she claimed that this was just humor - joke, joke! - and removed the blog posting.
According to her, not only immigrants should carry armbands, but also homosexuals, the Swedish-speaking Finns, and so on. Joke! Joke!
As you can imagine, this generated quite a heated discussion. And then some commentors started to really get into it, you know, into the humor part. One columnist speculated that if the party at some point gets into power, they could hire stand-up comedians to write their government program. Another challenged Eronen to a duel in standup comics.
But maybe we should really get into it this thing of armbands in Finland. For example, if you go shopping to another village or town, you should wear a symbol showing that you are not a local resident. Or what about armbands showing your IQ, so that anyone would know what to expect from you?
Well, what can I say. Maybe the party representatives should at some point read the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
My first work week at the Ministry of Education and Culture is finished. Some things were as I expected, and some others quite different. People there are great, but that wasn't a surprise, as every second or third person I met on the first day was someone I already knew at least by sight.
What I was thinking today while walking and taking photographs is the sad situation we have in society, when nothing seems to have an intrinsic value. Human beings are just for profit, and so is nature, and any other thing you care to mention. Everything is measured in terms of how much profit it can make.
I'm a techno-optimist, but still I feel bad about this. And this may also be why I have sometimes got the feeling that humankind is slowly but surely going extinct. Innovation is the word for today, and valuable things like science, education and culture are just fuel for the engine of the industry, geared for rapid profit.
But maybe humankind will find wisdom, learning from failures. If it isn't too late already?
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