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Robotic?
Is it just me? Am I hallucinating or is it actually there? I don't really trust myself. That's why I'm throwing it out to you guys to set me straight.
Watching the Repub Convention tonight, it all seems a little...robotic. I don't know...like everyone is going through the motions. The mud and red meat are flat, (Thompson's "liberalest least experienced candidate" line was obvious and trite, for example) and the jokes corny and unfunny. Maybe I'm still buzzing from last week's DemCon show or maybe it's this whole Gustav/civic responsibility thing. I can't shake the sense that the night feels...staged. Not real. Fabricated. True or not true?
Tell me I'm crazy. Or not.
Watching the Repub Convention tonight, it all seems a little...robotic. I don't know...like everyone is going through the motions. The mud and red meat are flat, (Thompson's "liberalest least experienced candidate" line was obvious and trite, for example) and the jokes corny and unfunny. Maybe I'm still buzzing from last week's DemCon show or maybe it's this whole Gustav/civic responsibility thing. I can't shake the sense that the night feels...staged. Not real. Fabricated. True or not true?
Tell me I'm crazy. Or not.
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It reminds me of the bit from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series when one of the protagonists lands in a disco and another character observes that the dancers are robots...
Zaphod: "Yeah, they're just to make the place look crowded, just to give it some atmosphere."
Roosta: "But there aren't any real people here at all!"
Zaphod: "So what's new?"
September 3, 2008 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink