Through
various experiences, I have come to conclude that perhaps
electronic devices do respond to violence. In fact, one could maybe go so far as to say that they respond in much the same way
human beings do. When a human is exposed to violence as
chastisement for some kind of less than
satisfactory act, the response can usually go one of two ways:
On one end of the
spectrum, the human gets his
act together and never "misbehaves" again;
OR the human becomes more
belligerent than ever.
Through my experiences I have come to
conclude that perhaps
machines respond in much the same way. My
inspiration for this node happened only a few minutes ago and a friend suggested I should write about it. My computer wouldn't let me on the
internet. I tried everything I knew how to do to make it work again short of calling tech support. Finally, in
frustration, I hit the machine as hard as I possibly could, and, on a
whim, tried to
reconnect to the internet.
Viola! my computer decided to connect to the internet. This caused me to think about past experiments with
violence on electronics. I can
consciously recall
numerous occasions where I have taken out my anger on a
mechanical object and it has magically begun to work again. Then, of course, there are those not so lucky
occasions. I can also think of many times when I have
rendered an electronic object useless in my
throws of fury. Now you see the
connection between the way a machine and a human reacts to violence may actually be very
similar.
perhaps man isn't quite so separated from machines as he would like to think.............