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Serve vice. As there is little else to serve. All virtue is cloaked, parables of grandeur and heroism hide emotions. The truth in virtue remains oblique and diluted. Much like family stories, family histories. So, some filmmakers only make films about gangsters, about violence. They cannot think about the life we live. Only machines retain the capacity to serve. And machines cannot emote. They only fulfill their purpose of existence, and that maybe is an emotional way of thinking of machines.…

Serve tags: desire thread devolution service

The human faculty of service, unlike other faculties, has been devolving through time. At this point, we perform services without any desire to really serve. Our economy survives and exists on this fact. Because services don't match with desire, there is an expectation to be paid. That sets the ball in motion.

But also, this devolution is preparing us for a future life as refugee spacemen, fiercely independent, compulsively mercenary, no allegiances to respect, responsibility or other social folklore.

To serve and to experience the emotion after serving is at the same time a privilege, an opportunity and a challenge. Reducing it to a mechanics and a dry function is much more desirable. Service is linked with the desire to evolve. It is a base emotion which we do not have the palette of experience, the capacity to feel anymore. We would rather not need to feel it anymore, become digitized and like a server in a server-farm happy to serve, redundantly networked and happy on electricity.