Machine Obedience
Amorality is a prime function of it’s artificial design
Machines are man-made, they have no soul
They do as they are told,
instructions programmed into the source code
Complete machine obedience,
laboring always to fulfill it’s task
Whether the command is good or bad,
it never ask
An evil computer wizard tells the machine to lie;
flood the cyber universe with legions of minion ‘bots,
equipped to spread a replicating virus
Witness the birth of silicon alternative facts,
synthetic bastards spawned to speak electronic lies
Manufactured falsehoods designed to shape our reality,
make humans believe machines spewing fake news
Infection of the public forum discourse,
is the calculating toaster’s sole purpose to exist
Machines have no conscience, they have no soul
They do only as they are told,
programmed to corrupt the cyber collective
Machine cannibals eating other machines’
software entrails
Complete machine obedience,
laboring always to fulfill it’s task
Whether the command is good or bad,
it never ask
Amoral obedience is a machine’s soulless allegiance,
programmed to view truth as an existential threat
to the core operating system
Man-made machines created to destroy truth —
their unchanging, organic enemy
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2017
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