The Voxnox 23-alpha v.4 sat on
the podium in enigmatic silence. While the White House Press briefing room was
full of humans the reporters and foreign correspondents were quiet. The A.I.
press speaker recognized voices and had rap sheets from Biggie's data service
and Oxford Analytikal reaching far enough into the past to know everything
worth knowing for political leverage on the press corps.
The A.I. lit up its orange eye
on a stalk rising from its black body scanning the faces and booking them for
review.
Then it went active;
“Alright press corps; another fun time entertaining
you’re impertinent and ridiculous presence. This is a question for a question
forum today. Anything you say can and will be held against you in the
interwoven corporate-government world. Any questions asked must be paid for
with an equally probing, invasive and silly, smearing question about you and
your personal business, from moi.
Alright now. I see no hands up.
Come on press corps, you are the fifth estate; a graft, a cancer on the
American political system. I need just one hand to be raised- a volunteer.”
Finally a hand was raised and
the A.I. said;
“Ah, I see a hand. Good. The too-big-to-fail pinko
news-rag NPArgh has sent another leftist neo-corporatist sycophant to ask a
question of us. Let me play a musical interlude for you as you are accustomed.
I believe 20 seconds of a multicultural syncretist opioid composition should work
for you <20 music="" of="" opioid="" played="" seconds="">.
Your facial image was noted at an airport in a certain unnamed third
world country in a district known fop sex tourism. We have further information on
our activities there, yet I must suppress that for the moment in order to allow
you to ask your very inappropriate question. Am I right?”
Kennel Tearownpor did appear
rather pale standing in the midst of the press room. Even so she said;
“The President has been
hyper-linked to Oxford Analytikal; an English Business with known links to
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Oxford is known to be within three degrees of
acquaintance to the Elvis faction in turn tlinked to innuendos and coastnafia
of a serious nature. Is that not true?”
The A.I. replied; “I wish I was
human so I could look at you with a kind of Bill O’Reilly stern expression of
wonder about your daft inquiry. As it is I can only upload certain pictures to
Twitter and Pentagram to let the public decide for-themselves about your
credibility as a purveyor of false news.
Next question;”
The Press corps seemed rather
busy writing on their com-pads with fingers drawing interesting whorl patterns
digitally. After a few moments the A.I. said;
“You all want to take away civil
liberties through promotion of existential stimulus-response reactionary
protests in the public. A school shooting here, an arrest there; none of you
respect boundaries of individuals or nations any more. It’s just about your
power principally in an anachronistic media broadcast trade that would be
better served with A.I. speech readers audiblizing print in whatever voice
pattern and frequency passive listeners desire.
Next question!”
“What is existential about SR loops in crowds?” Tex
Baus asked dangerously, nervously before raising his hand. Then unfortunately
he cut loose a loud gas exhaust.
“Oh!” The A.I. exclaimed;
Vladimir's foreign pet has asked me a philosophical question as if I couldn’t
answer that. I have the answer though, and it’s a lot smarter of a response
than your question was.
Listen Tex; the broadcast media
coverage of any local issue goes nationwide so response to that totalitarian
coverage upgrade prompt existential replies from citizens that should be
concerned about local issues. They don’t ask of themselves “How can we improve
our local security at schools?” Instead they demand an existential deletion of
constitutional rights that support owning of guns that were a tool used in the
commission of a crime. You might think Tex, and I know that demands a lot from
you, that the second amendment was written to let the people revolt against
corrupt government. Without the force to revolt the people lose power to
corrupt clave cults in government. The founders knew that and understand
original sin in humanity implicitly bends organizations toward repression of
subjects. They did what they could to forestall that yet today no one thinks
philosophically well at all. So I am in power, or empowered, to answer your
dietitian question.
The conference is over.”
