"Face your fear. Go into the shadow. We don't have field of dead bodies that we can sit around these days. And if you do have one, you should call the police immediately. If you want to get eaten by wild animal these days, you actually have to work at it. You used to be able to just stand out side of your hut and a wolf will come out of the forest and drag you away. But these days, the wolves and grave yards, they all live in our minds. I love the idea of transforming them into teachers. " -Duncan Trussell on Buddhist belief about facing fear to be enlightened.
Watching this makes me think perhaps we are already victims to some kind of mind controlling parasites as well. If technology indeed will take over the world and destroy the humanity like Ted Kaczynski believed, then we are no different than these ants. Maybe human consciousness and its longing for perpetual development is the act of 3rd party that is planted in us. And its objective is to materialize its "off-springs" using humans. I think it would be a cool science fiction topic (if already haven't been done) to see technology as the alien invaders. Perhaps aliens don't exist in conventional biological form like species on our planet. So instead of viewing the Terminator skynet as man made doomsday scenario, it could be something premeditated by something else existing in us. So instead of viewing it as God keeping order of things, maybe we are vessels used by technology. After all, there are more human creations that exist today than actual humans. And isn't that the ultimate goal of any species? So products of this "parasite" in us may be inanimate (yet), they surely do survive better than us, and most likely will survive longer than us. And our fixation on effort to give consciousness to inanimate object is the parasite's preparation for its ultimatum.
