Drontesque

Drone Intimacy  is such a poetic name and it did not disappoint! I am a big fan of cyberculture  and you can understand that if you read my piece on my relationship with a piece of technology (MY LAPTOP, OF COURSE) and from my intimate and what I believe is truly real and although intangible but I feel it, I do truly believe there’s an entire universe out there where we can float and fly behind that little magical screen. My laptop is truly a sultry little enchantress now isn’t she. However, not everything is magical, there’s always a dark side of the moon, and in this case, enter the screen assassins; drones. Drones aren’t just about the obvious evil which is the most evil sin which is obviously killing, it’s about the more “grotesque” or “morally-wrong fetishes” like distanced voyeurism. Now those drone pilots might complain all they want about their boring lives, but they seem like they have some weird tastes. From God-complexes to watching their enemies copulate, to “war porn” to “Predator Porn”. They’re a creative lot, those drone pilots. They kill with a press of a button, they are not seen doing something wrong, they are perceived as pleasant people but they are virtually evil, like the guy who virtually had incestual relations with his virtual daughter; it was one of the layers of his identity and thus it is part of who he is and thus should be treated accordingly in a fair and just world. But, it’s not just that, from the constant scanning of these villages and areas, they’ve come to memorize these people’s daily lives and have come to feel an eerie sense of immersive sense of intimacy when the drones keep rotating over the same area. You know the people, you get a sense of their daily lives, and as you do that you tend to read their body language, their actions, their movements, everything. That’s called daily narrativization. By narrative infilling, they create mental narrative to accompany the pictures the videos the drones send them and thus create a whole story that the can relate to and thus have a full report. However, in this scenario, one can tend to overstep and we tend to assume we know more than we do and that’s when we make mistakes and BOOM! But this, sadly, isn’t just in reality, it is mirrored virtually as well, and is experienced by all ages. I am talking about another type of screen killing, I’m talking about shooting and killing games. There are similarities and differences to these two screen killings, however the major difference is that in gaming the younger people are raised on shooting games and are born killing people and thus are raised with these mentioned above, but less intensely, but without the stress; also known as remote stress  and is usually diagnosed as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. So, it’s basically, fun times, the madness, but without the guilt.